Sickle-Cell Transfusions Are Found Critical
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A major clinical trial found that children with sickle cell disease who are at high risk of having strokes should continue to be treated with periodic blood transfusions.
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Blood from a newborn&#39;s umbilical cord, often thrown away but rich in cells that may rebuild the body&#39;s blood production system, is safe to treat leukemia in adults, two studies released on Wednesday show.
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A method for producing red blood cells in the laboratory could one day help solve the shortage of donated blood. University of Paris researchers have developed a way to produce large numbers of cells.
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The ancient practice of bleeding patients might actually have helped fight some infections, University of Chicago scientists have found.
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The radiation astronauts encounter in deep space could put vital blood-making cells in jeopardy.
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Using a recently developed technique for turning skin cells into stem cells, scientists have cured mice of sickle cell anemia -- the first direct proof that the easily obtained cells can reverse an inherited, potentially fatal disease.
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A haemophiliac given contaminated blood over 20 years ago gives evidence at an independent inquiry.
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A new genetic blood test allowing a closer match between donors and recipients is being developed.
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Blood donated by President Thabo Mbeki after an urgent appeal in South Africa was destroyed because it was regarded as a health risk, it emerged yesterday.
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Blood transfusions can save lives. But they can also spread diseases. Researchers believe this is how at least two people in Britain became infected with the human version of mad cow disease. They say the cases appears to confirm that ...
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Technicians of the Health Ministry have started this month to collect blood samples from pregnant women, for a study on the prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis &quot;B&quot; and Syphilis, throughout the country, reads a press note released by the World Health
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Blood donated by South African President Thabo Mbeki was destroyed because he did not complete a mandatory questionnaire and his race placed him in a high-risk category, a newspaper reported yesterday.
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A terminal leukemia patient must  have daily blood transfusions or die. A family begs doctors to  do everything possible to keep their elderly mother alive.  Parents cannot accept their newborn baby will not survive.
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Ernestine Diamond says her intensely painful sickle cell crises started when she was a baby, but her doctors back then knew nothing about the disease.
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A transport system used by the malaria parasite to infect blood cells could be a target for new treatments, scientists hope.
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Scientists have moved closer to being able to use human stem cells to manufacture blood.
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ATLANTA Doctors have halted a study on children with sickle cell anemia because two of the young patients have suffered strokes. The study was designed to determine whether children with the disease could be weaned off blood transfusion therapy.