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In vitro antibody production enables HIV infection detection in window period -- key to safer blood
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Researchers in Israel and Kenya have shown that the contribution of variable degrees of immune suppression, either due to existing chronic infections such as parasitemias and/or nutrition, in different populations may influence ...
Rare sheep could be key to better diagnostic tests in developing world, study
Jul 04, 2009 |
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The newest revolution in microbiology testing walks on four legs and says "baa."
Church effort sharply increases first-time African-American blood donors
Dec 15, 2008 |
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A program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and St. Louis Children's Hospital designed to increase awareness about sickle cell disease and the importance of blood donations within the African-American ...
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National blood donor pool significantly smaller than previously thought
Jul 31, 2007 |
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According to a new study in TRANSFUSION, the number of individuals in the U.S. who are eligible to donate blood may be smaller than previously believed — approximately 60 million fewer people. The new figures suggest that ...
Teen blood donors have higher risk of donation-related complications
May 20, 2008 |
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Sixteen- and 17-year olds who donate blood are significantly more likely to experience donation-related complications such as fainting and bruising than older blood donors, according to a study in the May 21 issue of JAMA.
FDA approves blood typing tests
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 14, 2008 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has licensed 14 new tests for determining a person's blood type.
Study confirms vCJD could be transmitted by blood transfusion
Aug 29, 2008 |
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The findings underline the importance of precautions against vCJD transmission, such as the Government decision in 2004 to ban blood donations from anyone who had received a blood transfusion since 1980.
Better blood screening process needed to prevent babesiosis transmission
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Babesiosis is a potentially dangerous parasitic disease transmitted by ticks and is common in the Northeast and the upper Midwest. Babesia lives inside of red blood cells, meaning it can also be transmitted through a blood ...
Blood transfusions are unlikely to spread cancer
Jul 20, 2007 |
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Individuals who receive blood transfusions from donors with undiagnosed cancers are at no higher risk of developing malignant disease than people who receive blood from donors without cancer, according to the results of a ...
Blood ties -- younger generation more willing to donate blood
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Youth may not bring wisdom but, according to a new study from Canada, it does bring generosity as young adults are found to be the most likely to donate blood. The research, published in BioMed Central's open access International Jo ...
Blood banks ban women from giving plasma
Dec 19, 2007 |
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Two Oklahoma blood banks are going to bar women from donating plasma because it may contain antibodies causing a rare complication.
Unrelated and mismatched cord blood transplantation can still help children with deadly conditions
Feb 13, 2009 |
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An unrelated cord blood transplant, even from a mismatched donor, can be effective in treating children with a host of life-threatening diseases and disorders including cancer, sickle cell anemia, and other genetic diseases, ...
Donating a kidney is not bad for your health, research shows
Jan 29, 2009 |
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People who donate a kidney live just as long and are just as healthy as those with two kidneys, according to a new study by University of Minnesota researchers that is the largest ever done on the long-term health consequences ...
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