Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . June 29th, 1998
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Hepatitis C Virus - Time-Limited Exclusion for Cocaine Use Would Result in Sizeable Blood Donor Loss
Blood Banking - Findings May Help Determine Acceptability of Blood Warmed Above 10(degree)C
Blood Banking - Method Preserves WBCs and Allows Simplified Counting
Blood Banking - Reduced Lymphocyte Counts Persist after Stem Cell Apheresis
Bone Marrow Transplantation - AML Patients with High Risk of Relapse May Benefit from Immunotherapy
Bone Marrow Transplantation - IL-12 Treatment Helps Prevent Acute GVHD
Conference Coverage (ASCO) - HCV Puts Childhood Cancer Survivors at Risk for Liver Disease
Conference Coverage (ASCO) - New Method Now Monitors Blood Dendritic Cell Numbers
Cytomegalovirus - NASBA Can Monitor Disease Progression and Antiviral Effectiveness
Epstein-Barr Virus - Elevated EBV DNA after Stem Cell Transplant May Be Associated with EBV-LPD
Human Herpesvirus 8 - Dendritic Cells Have Immunotherapeutic Potential in Myeloma Treatment
Human Herpesvirus 8 - Homosexual HIV Negative Men Have High Rate of HHV-8 Infection
Behavior - Intervention Reduces High-Risk Sex Behavior
Blood Safety - Health Canada Issues Statement About Hepatitis C Infected Plasma
Blood Thinners - Study: Warfarin Does Not Weaken Bones
Conference Coverage - New Treatments Further Complicate AIDS in U.S. Prisons
Hemophilia - Shortage of Humate PR Antihemophilic Factor Likely
Genetics - Scientists Identify Gene Involved in Diabetes
Hepatitis C - Hospitals Helping Study How Virus Transmits
Vector Development - "Development and Application of Mini-Ad Vectors for Gene Therapy of Hemophilia and Cancer."
Graft Rejection - "Intra-Graft Proliferation of Naive and Memory T Lymphocytes During Hepatic Allograft Rejection."
Vascularization (Cancer) - "Expression of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) and Neovascularization in Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma (NSCLC)."
Vascularization (Cancer) - "Growth-Related Oncogene (GROAlpha) is a Growth Stimulating Factor for Adenocarcinoma of the Lung: Proliferation is Inhibited by a Synthetic Peptide Inhibitor for Alpha-Chemokines."
Blood Banking (Safety) - "Incidence of Seroconversion to Positivity for Hepatitis C Antibody in Repeat Blood Donors in England, 1993-5."
Blood Filtering - "Push-Pull Sorbent Based Pheresis for Treatment of Acute Hepatic Failure: The Biologic-Detoxifier/Plasma Filter System."
Bone Marrow Transplantation - "Long-Term Immune Reconstitution and Outcome After HLA-Nonidentical T-Cell-Depleted Bone Marrow Transplantation for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency: A European Retrospective Study of 116 Patient
Eye Banking - "Screening of Myopic Photorefractive Keratectomy in Eye Bank Eyes by Computerized Videokeratography."
Hemophilia - "Genetic Induction of Immune Tolerance to Human Clotting Factor VIII in a Mouse Model for Hemophilia A."
Oxygen Carriers - "Hemoglobin Based Oxygen Carrying Solution Stability in Extracorporeal Circulation: An in vitro Evaluation and Implications for Clinical Use."
Transfusion Medicine - "Safety and Cost Effectiveness of a 10x109/L Trigger for Prophylactic Platelet Transfusions Compared With the Tradition
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