Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . August 7th, 1995
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Blood Banking - Canadian Red Cross Recalls Blood Tainted with CJD
Blood Banking - Local Red Cross Blood Services Workers Walk Picket Line
Blood Banking - Viral Inactivation Results Look Good; Phase I Planned for Late 1995
AIDS Cofactors - HIV+ Patient Developed AIDS At Time of HHV-6 Coinfection
Conference Coverage - Cyclophosphamide Induces Tolerance to Factor VIII
Conference Coverage - T-Cell Depletion May Further HLA Non-Identical BMT
Diagnostics - Serological Test Recognizes HPV Types 6/11 in Gynecologic Patients
HCV Animal Model - Findings Offer Alternative to Chimpanzees
HEV Animal Model - Evidence of Naturally Acquired Antibodies Found in Study of Pregnant Monkeys
Hemolytic Disease - Known Contaminated Product Given to Women in Former East Germany
Industry News/Blood Banking - Daxor Corporation Makes Announcement
Industry News/Joint Venture - Thalidomide-Related Drugs Studied for Graft Vs. Host Disease
Industry News/Therapy - Method To Treat Bleeding Disorder Presented
Industry News/Transfusion - CollectFirst System Receives FDA Market Approval
Industry News/Vaccination - Recommendations Focus on Prevention Against Hepatitis A
Industry News/Xenotransplantation - Ex Vivo Support for Severe Acute Liver Disease Patients
Infection Control - Parenteral Nutrition Patients At Risk for Infection from Infusion Catheters
International/Japan - Protesters Blame Government for Contaminated Blood
Transplantation/Bone - Chemical Decontamination Is Required for Safe Allograft Procedures
Transplantation/Japan - Questionable Kidney Transplantations Spark Ethical Debate
Drug Resistance - "Empiric Antibiotic Treatment Regimen in a Haematology Unit."
Serological Assays - Hepatitis - "AuraFlex HBsAg, an Immunoassay of the AuraFlexR System."
Serological Assays - Hepatitis - "Fully Automated Electrochemi-Luminescent Assays for the Determination of HBsAG, Anti-HBs and Anti-HBc on the New Immunoassay System Elecsys."
Serological Assays - Hepatitis - "Hepatitis B Core Total Antibody Assay for the AuraFlexR Immunoassay System."
Serological Assays - Hepatitis - "The Hook Effect in Hepatitis B (HBsAG) Slide Tests."
Therapy - BMT Rescue - "Low Toxicity with Etoposide (VP16), Cyclophosphamide (CY), Total Body Irradiation (TBI) and Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation (Allo-BM
Transplantation Therapy - "A Method for Decreasing Large Volumes of Thawed Stem Cells Prior to Auto-Transplantation."
Coagulation - "Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitor and the Current Concept of Blood Coagulation."
Diagnostics - Blood Culture Systems - "Clinical Comparison of the Isolator and BacT/Alert Aerobic Blood Culture Systems."
Diagnostics - HCV - "Preclinical Evaluation of AMPLICOR Hepatitis C Virus Test for Detection of Hepatitis C Virus RNA."
Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome - "The Role of Plasma Exchange in the Treatment of Severe Forms of Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome in Childhood."
Toxoplasmosis - Screening - "Toxoplasmosis and Pregnancy: Findings From Cord Blood Screening in 30,000 Newborns."
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