Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . March 9th, 1998
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Conference Coverage (Blood Safety) - CJD Issues Are Fraught with Uncertainty and Controversy
Conference Coverage (Blood Safety) - Lookback Study Points to Safety of Transfusion
Diagnostics (HIV) - Combination of ELISAs Is Reliable, Cost-Effective
Therapy (Parkinson Disease) - Transplanted Immortalized Dopamine Cells Improved Neurological Deficits In Vivo
Vascular Gene Therapy - Fas Ligand Gene Transfer Inhibits Neointima Formation in Blood Vessels
Blood Safety (HCV) - $200 Million Shortfall in Hepatitis Deal, CBC Reports
Blood Safety (HCV) - Canadian Health Ministry Reports HCV-Tainted Blood Infected 60,000 to 90,000
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - WHO Recommends New Diagnostic Criteria for CJD
Industry News (Joint Venture) - Definitive Agreement Signed To Develop and Market Blood Products
Infection Control - Uganda: Winning the Fight Against AIDS
Testing (Helicobacter Pylori) - FDA 510(k) Submission Announced for Stat-Simple Rapid Whole Blood Test
Blood Safety - "Inactivation of Viruses, Bacteria, and Leukocytes in Platelet Concentrates."
Disease Associations - "Human Herpesvirus 8 DNA in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells Relation to Sexual Transmitted Diseases And Progression to Kaposi's Sarcoma in HIV Infected Patients."
Therapy (Antiviral) - "Indinavir in Therapy-Experienced HIV Haemophiliac Patients."
Transfusion Medicine - "Survey of Use of Platelet Transfusions in Centres Participating in the MRC Leukaemia Trials."
Transmission (CJD) - Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) Investigational Lookback Study."
Transmission (HGV) - "A Prospective Study on Transfusion-Associated Hepatitis G Virus (HGV) Infection in a Cohort of Multitransfused Patients."
Blood Substitutes - "Absence of Immunogenicity of Diaspirin Cross-Linked Hemoglobin in Humans."
Cord Blood - "Differential Cytotoxicity of Cord Blood and Bone Marrow-Derived Natural Killer Cells."
Cytomegalovirus - "Cytomegalovirus Retinitis after Cardiac Transplantation."
Diagnostics (Hemorrhagic Fever) - "Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever: Report of a Case Studied by Immunohistochemistry and Electron Microscopy."
Hemodialysis (HEV) - "Prevalence of Antibodies to Hepatitis E Virus among Hemodialysis Patients in Sweden."
Thrombocytopenia - "Adenosine Diphosphate (ADP) and ADP Receptor Play a Major Role in Platelet Activation/Aggregation Induced by Sera from Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia Patients."
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