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Wasting blood and money  -  25 Mar 2008
Bangor Daily News,It should not take more than a couple of days in every state for a convention of blood transfusion experts and other physicians, hospital executives,

Lifeblood of transfusion service  -  25 Mar 2008
Trade Channels,Northgate, the London-listed technology services group is helping the Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service (NIBTS) to collect, test and distribute

Suburban worrier  -  25 Mar 2008
Times Online,That might have had more to do with the accuracy of the would-be assassin's bullet than the blood transfusion, but I didn't get into that.

MBTS to collect blood in rural areas  -  25 Mar 2008
Nyasa Times,The Malawi Blood Transfusion Service (MBTS) has engaged an extra gear to increase supply of blood to hospitals experiencing acute shortage.

Britain's drugs policy will help cyclists to clean up  -  25 Mar 2008
Times Online,...“They can't cheat, they're not going to start rigging up blood-transfusion units. It's not like a pro team who race as a team and then go back to the

Daughter protests after autopsy leaves questions unanswered  -  25 Mar 2008
Press-Enterprise,Doctors ordered a blood transfusion. Tests showed Martz was anemic, his blood was abnormally acidic, his kidneys weren't functioning properly and his heart

Children’s Museum of Indianapolis remembers child victims of ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Noblesville Daily Times,...not been disturbed since he'd left it to go to the hospital for the last time in 1990, when he died of AIDS he'd contracted through a blood transfusion.

Sharing stories of life with AIDS  -  25 Mar 2008
NYU Washington Square News,DiPaolo had a blood transfusion at the age of four during an operation. Marino was engaged to a man with HIV. Flowers had unprotected sex with an infected

Letters to WW  -  25 Mar 2008
Workers World...whose house was firebombed in the 1980s when neighbors found out that the young hemophiliacs had contracted HIV via blood transfusion—in the era when

Conversion makes all blood type O  -  Mar 23, 2008
Boston Globe,...said Christopher Stowell, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Blood Transfusion Service, who has no connection to the company.

Transfusions of 'older' blood pose greater risks  -  Mar 19, 2008
CTV.ca,..."A blood transfusion is always a stop-gap measure until your body starts to make enough of its own red cells again," said Devine. It is estimated that about

YNHH settles in Medicare-fraud case  -  Mar 24, 2008
Yale Daily News,From 2000 to 2005, the hospital overbilled Medicare for infusion therapy, chemotherapy administration and blood transfusion services performed on patients,

Fresher blood poses fewer surgery risks: study  -  Mar 19, 2008
Scientific American..."For cardiac surgery there are a lot of things you can do in the operating room to minimize the risk of receiving a blood transfusion at all," Koch said.

Boy needs donors of rare blood  -  Mar 21, 2008
New Straits Times,By Jaswinder Kaurjaswin@nst.com.my KOTA KINABALU: A mother whose son suffers from thalassaemia major, requiring blood transfusion every month, is worried as

Fear of needle keeps blood donors away  -  Mar 21, 2008
Newindpress,The survey, supervised by M Anas, a house surgeon of MCH, also found that fear of fainting during blood transfusion (11 percent) and the reluctance to spend

Fed: blood transfusion  -  Mar 13, 2008
Oxford Analytica (subscription),The aim is to inject much-needed liquidity into credit markets -- with the most apt metaphor being a blood transfusion to a bleeding victim.

Blood Center: Risk Shown in New Study is Minimal  -  Mar 19, 2008
WREX-TV,..."But the bottom line is, if you need a blood transfusion you need that blood transfusion 99% of the time in order to survive." Bowman says the shelf life

HIV infection after transfusion alleged  -  Feb 25, 2008
The Statesman,...today at Subhas Maidan area near Barasat in North 24-Parganas, alleged he was infected with HIV after a blood transfusion at a city private hospital.

Hospital workers face charges over death of woman who needed blood ...  -  Mar 7, 2008
Mainichi Daily News,Two hospital workers who failed to give an elderly woman a blood transfusion when replacing an artificial bone in her body, resulting in her death,

Please give blood  -  Mar 20, 2008
Wicklow People,A final reminder from the Irish Blood Transfusion Service Board about their Mobile Clinic which is taking place at Blessington Community College this

New campaign says give blood for Mother’s Day  -  Feb 24, 2008
ic Wales,And every year up to 30 pregnant women will receive a blood transfusion at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff – not for themselves, but for their

Transfusion in the womb  -  Feb 24, 2008
ic Wales,There is a very small risk of an infection developing inside the uterus and, very occasionally, the baby may react to the blood transfusion and its heart

Older donated blood tied to heart surgery risk  -  Mar 19, 2008
Boston Globe,..."Increasingly, there's awareness that blood transfusion is not a free lunch, that there are quite significant hazards associated with its use," said Dr.

Doggie Blood Bank  -  Mar 18, 2008
WJLA,They told me for a total of six days that there was nothing they could do and the blood transfusion was a last resort. It was miraculous," Lane said.

FDA's blood-donation ban: Does it save or risk lives?  -  Feb 29, 2008
San Jose Mercury News,...say the minuscule risk of infection must be weighed against a far greater risk - not getting a lifesaving blood transfusion because of low supplies.

Hoima Hospital Runs Out of Blood  -  Mar 21, 2008
AllAfrica.com,Mr Ngobi revealed that limited blood supplies have forced hospital authorities to refer most cases, which require blood transfusion to the national referral

Hamilton blood donors needed  -  Mar 19, 2008
Hamilton Advertiser news,PEOPLE living in Hamilton are being urged to donate blood when the Blood Transfusion Service visit the town next month. The mobile donating team will be

Cancer ordeal of bubbly Ruby, 3  -  Mar 24, 2008
Lancashire Evening Post,Ruby was sent to the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital in Pendlebury where she had to undergo a blood transfusion as her haemoglobin levels were so low.

Service hours extended for blood donation appeal  -  Mar 17, 2008
Media Newswire (press release),The Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service (BTS) will extend the service hours of some blood donor centres from tomorrow (March 15) for people's

Haematology moot begins today  -  Mar 13, 2008
Daily Times,The focal issues of the moot are blood transfusion, stem cell transplantation, thalassaemia and bone marrow failure syndromes (aplastic anemia),

RFID may track, safeguard global blood supply  -  Feb 28, 2008
Computerworld,...has partnered with three national blood centers to develop prototypes for using RFID to manage the entire supply chain in blood transfusion medicine.

The zealous: A woman is driven by her grandson's death  -  Feb 25, 2008
Houston Chronicle,She phoned Dianna daily, and learned that doctors wanted Dennis to have a blood transfusion in addition to chemotherapy. Jehovah's Witnesses believe there

Have a heart and give blood at unit  -  Mar 14, 2008
Wicklow People,The Irish Blood Transfusion Service Board's Mobile Unit Team will be at Blessington Community College next Wednesday, March 19 from 2.30 pm to 4.45 pm and

Former resident dies after prolonged fight with debilitating disorder  -  Mar 17, 2008
GulfNews,A medical certificate issued by the hospital states that he was on regular blood transfusion. Abdul Hakim, who was an illegal, did not have a steady income

PHLEBOTOMIST (CERTIFIED AND NON-CERTIFIED)  -  Mar 13, 2008
Seattle Times,...work as part of a team to collect blood from volunteer blood donors to help us meet the ongoing blood transfusion needs of patients in our communities.

Red Cross Can't Say What Happened to Suspect Blood  -  Mar 18, 2008
Crosswalk.com,Even if a doctor or a patient was able to link the disease to a blood transfusion, Epstein noted, transfusion-acquired infections must be reported by

"Older" blood does more harm than good  -  Mar 19, 2008
Xinhua,The study findings should urge doctors to be "more conservative with how they approach blood transfusion," says Koch. Researchers aren't sure why older

Zimbabwe: Tanzanian Delegation Visits  -  Mar 3, 2008
AllAfrica.com,A nine-member delegation from Tanzania was in Zimbabwe on a mission to draw lessons on how to collect safe blood and ways to upgrade their blood transfusion

Blood Storage Impacts Survival Rate  -  Mar 19, 2008
Wall Street JournalThe study findings should cause doctors to be "more conservative with how they approach blood transfusion," says Dr. Koch. A number of steps can be taken

Hospitals using infected blood: patients’ rights group  -  Mar 7, 2008
Thaindian.com,He has also demanded adequate financial compensation for all victims who have contracted HIV through tainted blood transfusion besides punishment for all

Blood data transfer did not break act  -  Feb 27, 2008
RTE.ie,The data involving over 170000 donors was given by the Irish Blood Transfusion Service to the New York Blood Centre in December to help the Irish service

New Study Proves Neoteric's BloodTrack Increases Hospital Efficiency  -  Mar 11, 2008
Market Wire (press release)...hospitals provide blood to their patients," said Dr. Michael Murphy, Professor of Blood Transfusion Medicine at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust.

Medics Selling Blood Face Arrest  -  Feb 25, 2008
AllAfrica.com,HEALTH workers who indulge themselves in unethical conduct such as sale of blood, risk being prosecuted or dismissed, the Director Uganda Blood Transfusion

Anemia drugs decrease survival of cancer patients  -  Mar 14, 2008
Food Consumer,Doctors give the anemia drugs to patients because they believe patients would be better off taking the anemia drugs and avoiding blood transfusion.

How to Get Rid of Jaundice  -  Mar 12, 2008
Los Angeles Chronicle,Exchange blood transfusion. Rarely, when severe jaundice doesn't respond to other treatments, a baby may need an exchange transfusion of blood.

Faith in the Operating Room  -  Feb 27, 2008
New York Times,Although the need for a blood transfusion was unlikely, it was always a possibility. He wondered how he would feel if his patient died a preventable death

UAE to hold first Blood Donor Day  -  Mar 12, 2008
GulfNews,...of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, The International Federation of Blood Donor Organisations and The International Society of Blood Transfusion.

Good Friday blood drive draws more than 40 donors  -  Mar 22, 2008
Wausau Daily Herald,..."My dad almost died 31/2 years ago, and a blood transfusion saved his life," Karls said. "Whomever saved my dad's life gave us the best gift a family could

Immucor Buying BioArray for $117 Million  -  Mar 11, 2008
CNNMoney.com...company before closing the Immucor deal, in order to commercialize the company's technology in fields outside of blood transfusion and transplantation.

Ex-worker sues Watonga hospital [50 mins ago]  -  Mar 20, 2008
NewsOK.com (subscription),The lawsuit alleges her problems with hospital administrators started about a year ago, after a physician's assistant refused to order a blood transfusion

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