Donors stop giving blood
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Johannesburg - Blood donations have dropped dramatically after it was revealed that the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) used racial classification to determine the risk factor of blood.
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THE number of organ transplants carried out in Scotland has dropped by almost a fifth in the past five years because of a growing shortage of suitable donors.
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Doctors Without Borders, the international medical charity that helps people in need throughout the world has announced it would be stopping all activities in the war-torn nation of Iraq because it could no longer guarantee the safety of its workers.
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For the second time in a year, people who received tendons, cartilage and other parts from donated cadavers are being urged to get tested for hepatitis and the AIDS virus because of scandals involving tissue suppliers.
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Proposals to limit the use of tissues taken from living patients have been overthrown.
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At least 278 blood donors in India&#39;s north-eastern state of Tripura were found to be HIV-positive, fuelling fears that blood supplied from blood banks in the region could be infected with the killer virus that causes AIDS.
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The medical aid group Medecins Sans  Frontiers (Doctors without Borders) urged donors Tuesday to  stop sending it money for Asian tsunami victims, saying it had  collected enough funds to manage its relief effort there.
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Contaminated transfusions kill three in the United Kingdom, and there's still no effective method for screening blood stocks. In Bodyhack.
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Many heart surgeons traditionally insist on fresh, whole blood donated within the last 48 hours for their tiniest patients. They feel that this âpureâ blood gives babies a better chance of surviving heart
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Biopure Corp. is running out of money -- again. Recent regulatory filings, including one yesterday, show the Cambridge blood-substitute developer seeking the financial flexibility it says it will need to keep operating after January. That's when it expects to use up the $7 million it raised through a stock sale in September.
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Politics: 21 September 2004, Tuesday. Bulgaria's Health Ministry is set for carrying out a special seminar for attracting more blood donation volunteers.
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The national transplant waiting list has grown to more than 87,000 because organ donations from the dead have not kept up with demand. For help, frustrated patients increasingly are turning to the living &#151; even to strangers. That worries bioethicists, surgeons and federal officials who oversee the transplant system, which is designed to treat all patients fairly.
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Blood donation restrictions were tightened today after warnings in Britain that vCJD can be transmitted through transfusions. Anyone who lived in Britain for more than one year between 1980 and 1996 will not be able to give blood from November.
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Blood donations may help keep the body's circulatory system healthy by reducing stores of iron, but the effect may not work for older people, a U.S. study suggested on Tuesday.
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People in the Czech Republic are being offered two free pints of beer if they become blood donors.
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NEW YORK  - Less that 0.1 percent of blood and tissue donors in the United States had positive screening tests for HIV between 2000 and 2002, according to a new study. And the rate of hepatitis C virus was just over 1 percent.
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The national organ transplant network is asking hospitals to discourage patients from advertising for donors and, if possible, to refuse to perform transplants that arise from these campaigns.