Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . January 2nd, 2003
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Blood Safety - Heat treatment doesn't inactivate parvovirus B19
Bone Marrow Cells - Growth factors can optimize hepatocyte development
Anemia - Drug that boosts blood cell production reduces transfusions in critically ill
Stem Cell Transplantation - Fluconazole effective as fungal infection prophylaxis
Stem Cell Transplantation - Reduced-intensity conditioning lowers viral respiratory infection mortality
Stem Cell Transplantation - Urokinase can improve cord blood stem cell yield
Blood Disorders - Gene transfer improves erythroid development in Diamond-Blackfan anemia
Blood Screening - FDA clears COBAS Ampliscreen system
Cord Blood - More families banking blood cells from umbilical cords
Disease Associations - Blood transfusion linked to liver cancer risk in a high-endemic area of Japan
Fanconi Anemia - Study supports benefit of lentiviral-vectored gene therapy
Finance - Blood transfusion-focused biotech company reports third quarter results
Multiple Myeloma - Second stem cell transplant confers longer remission
Pulmonary Embolism - Licensing agreement signed for generic urokinase
Stem Cell Research - Coriell Institute ships first unit for transplantation
Stem Cell Transplantation - Cytokine gene mutations linked to high graft-versus-host disease risk
Stem Cell Transplantation - Posttranslant delirium common in cancer patients
Tumor Blood Vessels - Research continues into anionic phospholipids
Type 1 Diabetes - JDRF launches center for islet transplantation at Washington University
Venous Thromboembolism - New Lovenox data presented at hematology gathering
West Nile Virus - Death in Maryland likely related to blood transfusion
West Nile Virus - Federal scientists battle to unlock the secrets of deadly virus
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