Blood Safety
U.S. National Institutes of Health awards grant for clinical trial of bacterial test
Published in Hospital Business Week, November 19th, 2006
The award is a continuation of earlier grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that supported the development of this test. The NIH grant is intended to help the company obtain U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approval and bring the product to market. Transfusion of bacterially contaminated platelets can result in severe or fatal sepsis, and remains the highest known risk associated with transfusion of blood products.
Screening all platelet...
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