News tagged with blood donors
Cancer-stricken British girl's 'Bucket List' is Internet hit
A cancer-stricken British teenage girl said Thursday she had been overwhelmed by messages of support from around the world after writing an online "Bucket List" of things she wanted to do before dying.
Jun 09, 2011 |
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Report: Transplant may have cured man of AIDS
A very unusual blood transplant appears to have cured an American man living in Berlin of infection with the AIDS virus, but doctors say the approach is not practical for wide use. The man, who is in his 40s, had a blood ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 15, 2010 |
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Lack of trust in hospitals a major deterrent for blood donation among African-Americans
Disparities in healthcare between races exist in the United States. A new study published in the journal Transfusion explores why African Americans donate blood at lower rates than whites. The findings reveal that there ...
Sep 10, 2010 |
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Unrelated kidney donor study shows age and obesity increase complications
Patients who have received a new kidney are significantly more likely to develop transplant renal artery stenosis (TRAS) if they are obese or over 50, according to research published in the September issue of the Journal of ...
Sep 07, 2010 |
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Mother of all humans lived 200,000 years ago
The most robust statistical examination to date of our species' genetic links to "mitochondrial Eve" -- the maternal ancestor of all living humans -- confirms that she lived about 200,000 years ago. The Rice University study ...
Aug 17, 2010 |
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Filtering donor blood reduces heart, lung complications
Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) have discovered yet another reason to filter the foreign white cells from donor blood: The resulting blood product is associated with dramatically fewer cardiopulmonary ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 22, 2010 |
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Bioengineers create simulator to test blood platelets in virtual heart attacks
A team of bioengineers from the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Medicine and Engineering have trained a computer neural network model to accurately predict how blood platelets would respond to complex conditions ...
Jun 20, 2010 |
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Change policy that bans blood donations from men who have sex with men
It is time to change the policy that bans blood donations in Canada from all men who have sex with men, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 25, 2010 |
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Clinician and patient preferences clash over information sharing before transplantation
Most kidney donors and recipients are in favor of exchanging personal health information that may influence success before scheduling a living organ donor transplant, while healthcare professionals are more reluctant, according ...
Mar 18, 2010 |
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Intelligent blood bags
(PhysOrg.com) -- Have the blood supplies got too warm? Do they match the patient?s blood group? In the future, these kinds of questions will be answered by intelligent radio nodes attached to blood bags. These ...
Dec 01, 2009 |
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First near-total face and upper-jaw transplant appears successful
More than a year and a half following the first near-total face and upper jaw transplant, the donor tissue appears successfully integrated, according to a report in the November/December issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Su ...
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Better blood screening process needed to prevent babesiosis transmission
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 ...
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Duke Studies New Approach in Fetal Transplants for Metabolic Disorders
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers say a new development in cord blood transplants for inherited metabolic disorders may be curative for some babies who are treated while still in the womb.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Folic acid -- mandatory fortification may be unnecessary
Persistently present levels of unmetabolized folic acid found in the population indicate that introducing mandatory food fortification may result in an 'overdosing' effect. A study of blood donors, new mothers and babies, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Mother's immune system may block fetal treatments for blood diseases
Pediatric researchers have resolved an apparent contradiction in the field of prenatal cell transplantation— a medical approach that holds future promise in correcting sickle cell disease and other serious congenital blood ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 17, 2009 |
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