Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . March 24th, 1997
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Blood Banking (Safety) - GAO: "Blood Supply is Very Safe"
Blood Banking (Screening) - Blood Banks Should be Accountable to Donors
Blood Banking (International) - Request Announced for Human Serum Albumin from Ivory Coast
Blood Banking (International) - Japan AIDS Expert Considered Suicide
Blood Banking (International) - Prosecutor Asks Charges To Be Dropped in France Blood Scandal
Blood Banking (International) - Former Japanese Health Ministry Official Denies Negligence
AIDS Therapies (Human Serum Albumin) - Antiviral Effect of Modified Serum Albumin May Prevent Drug Resistance
Anemia (Screening) - Letter of Intent Signed To Develop Non-Invasive Blood Test
Blood Clotting - FDA Clearance Received for Coagulation Testing System
Conference Coverage (Retrovirus) - Immune System Rebounds During Potent Anti-HIV Therapy
Conference Coverage (Retrovirus) - Pneumococcus in Younger Adults Indicative of HIV Infection
Diagnostics (HCV) - Current Assays Don't Detect Mixed Infections in Hemophiliacs
Drug Development - Amphotec Supplemental New Drug Application Announced
Immunology (HGV) - Response to E2 Linked to Loss of HGV Viremia
International (Asia) - Japan Specific 'CEA' Cancer Antibody Patented
Legislation - North Dakota Considers Confining People Who Refuse HIV Testing
Screening (HIV) - HIV Immunoblot Assays May Remedy Nonspecific Results
Therapy (Cancer) - Stem Cell Clinical Trial Initiated in Europe
Thrombocythemia - Priority Review Status in Canada Announced for Agrylin
Transplantation - Demonstration of Indirect T Cell Allorecognition Is Difficult
Autoimmune Hepatitis (Therapy) - "Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH): Clinical Features and Response to Therapy in Cirrhotic and Noncirrhotic Stages."
Blood Product Handling - "Effect of Filtration on the Accumulation of Inflammatory and Fibrinolytic Mediators in Platelet Concentrates."
Blood Product Safety - "Lack of Neoantigenicity of Human Platelet Concentrates Treated with a Novel Psoralen and UVA."
Disease Associations - "Haemolytic Anemia Caused by Tuberculosis Infection in HIV Patient."
Prognosis (Breast Cancer) - "Evaluation of the Significance of Plasma Osteopontin Levels in Metastatic Breast Cancer."
Transfusion Medicine (Breast Cancer) - "In Vitro Cytotoxic Effects of Activated Umbilical Cord Blood Cells Against Human Breast Cancer Cell Lines."
Bernard-Soulier Syndrome - "Impaired Prothrombin Consumption in Bernard-Soulier Syndrome Is Corrected in vitro by Human Factor VIII."
Blood Substitutes - "Fluid Resuscitation with O-2 vs non-O-2 Carriers after 2 h of Hemorrhagic Shock in Conscious Hamsters."
Blood Substitutes - "The Toxicities of Native and Modified Hemoglobins."
Colorectal Cancer (Screening) - "Detection of Colorectal Carcinoma Cells in Circulating Peripheral Blood by Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction Targeting Cytokeratin-20 mRNA."
Cord Blood - "Comparative Cytokine Production by in vitro Stimulated Mononucleated Cells from Cord Blood and Adult Blood."
Diagnostics (HBV) - "Differential Diagnosis of Acute HBsAg Positive Hepatitis using IgM anti-HBc by a Rapid, Fully Automated Microparticle Enzyme Immunoassay."
Diagnostics (HCV) - "Effective Detection of Active HCV Infection: HCV RNA Carrier State in a Context Free of Hepatitis Symptoms."
Diagnostics (HCV) - "Laboratory Diagnosis of Hepatitis C."
Hemophilia - "HLA Class II Profile: A Weak Determinant of Factor VIII Inhibitor Development in Severe Haemophilia A."
Hemorrhagic Risk - "Increased Hemorrhagic Risk after Repeated Infusion of Highly Substituted Medium Molecular Weight Hydroxyethyl Starch."
Transplantation (CMV) - "Effect of Cytomegalovirus Infection Status on First-Year Mortality Rates among Orthotopic Liver Transplant Recipients."
Transplantation (HCV) - "Prevalence of Antibodies to Hepatitis C Virus and Correlation with Liver Disease in Renal Transplant Patients."
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