Blood Weekly articles from January 2002

Blood Weekly archives from January 2002

Ulinastatin Reduces Hemolysis In Stored Blood Products.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - The protease inhibitor ulinastatin protects the integrity of erythrocyte membranes in stored blood products, researchers in Japan report. ...

Stem Cell Expansion Unaffected By Cold Storage.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Cold storage does not affect the expansion potential of hematopoietic progenitor cells, researchers in Italy have found. Dr. Lorenza Lazzari and...

New Data Supports Safety, Tolerability Of Oral Anticoagulant.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The presentation of a range of data at the 43rd American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting in Orlando, provides encouraging evidence to support the efficacy and safety of the oral anticoagulant...

Tranexamic Acid Reduces Bleeding After Knee Replacement.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in Israel say that tranexamic acid (TA), an antifibrinolytic agent, safely and effectively reduces blood loss after knee replacement surgery. ...

Bovine Cell-Free Hemoglobin Impairs Tissue Oxygenation.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Polymerized bovine cell-free hemoglobin (PBH) is inferior to other surgical blood substitutes, according to a researcher in the United States. ...

Novel T-Cell Population Found In Humans.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United Kingdom have found a novel population of T lymphocytes that may help prevent the body's immune system from attacking its host. ...

Stem Cell Transplantation With Melphalan Effective For AL Amyloidosis Treatment.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Intensive chemotherapy combined with stem cell transplantation can help patients suffering from AL amyloidosis, researchers in the United States say. ...

rNAPc2 Phase IIa Clinical Trial Data Are Encouraging.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Corvas International, Inc., announced that results from a Phase IIa clinical study show that the anticoagulant rNAPc2 appears to be safe and well tolerated when administered to patients prior to...

Pharmion Gets $65 Million To Market New Drugs.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Boulder, Colorado-based pharmaceutical distributor Pharmion Corp. said it has raised $65 million in financing as it pushes ahead with plans to launch two drugs. The two-year-old company will...

UNC Gene Therapy Center Gets $9.2 Million NIH Grant.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Gene Therapy Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine will receive $9.2 million over 5 years from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National...

Donor-Specific Blood Transfusion Provides Comprehensive Graft Protection.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in France have shown why blood transfusion can effectively promote tolerance in cardiac graft recipients while other tolerance-induction methods...

Study Suggests 'White-Coat Hypertension' Is Not Harmless.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- White-coat hypertension - blood pressure that's high only in the doctor's office - is not just a harmless case of the nerves but may signal early heart damage that should not be ignored, new research...

New Data Support Early Intervention With Candesartan Cilexetil.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New data supporting early intervention with the effect of antihypertensive treatment with Atacand (candesartan cilexetil), in acute stroke patients with elevated blood pressure, were presented at the...

Trisenox Receives Orphan Drug Designation.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc.'s, (CTI) novel cancer drug treatment, Trisenox (arsenic trioxide) injection has been granted orphan drug designation for the treatment of both chronic myeloid (CML) and acute...

Two-Step Approach For Myeloma Shows Promise.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Using a tag-team approach, researchers believe they may be able to increase survival for patients with multiple myeloma. In a multicenter study led by Dr. David Maloney at the Fred Hutchinson...

Further Evidence Of Transplant Success Utilizing Cord Blood Stem Cells.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Viacord, a division of ViaCell, Inc., a cord blood banking and research and development company, reported another significant clinical success utilizing umbilical cord blood stem cells in the...

Mesodermal Progenitor Cell Population Found.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United States say that a population of highly expandable stem cells can be induced to differentiate into many different types of mesodermal...

High-Dose Chemotherapy Causes Post-Transplant Osteoporosis.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Intensive chemotherapy causes bone degradation sometimes seen after stem cell transplantation, researchers in Genova, Italy report. "Osteoporosis is a...

Liver Stem Cell Program Prepares For Human Clinical Trials.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Incara Pharmaceuticals Corporation has conducted a preinvestigational new drug (IND) meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding clinical studies of transplantation of a...

Natural Killer Cell-Enhancing Cytokines Reduce Residual Disease.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Cytokines that stimulate natural killer (NK) cell activity may help control residual malignancy after stem cell transplantation, researchers in Minnesota...

Premier Launches Program For Stroke Care Improvement.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Premier, Inc., is working with the American Stroke Association to identify opportunities to improve stroke care for Premier-member hospitals. Premier is a healthcare alliance of 1600 not-for-profit...

FDA Approves BioGlue Use In Vascular Repair For Hemostasis.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- CryoLife, Inc., announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Premarket Approval (PMA) application for use of BioGlue surgical adhesive. This device is indicated for...

Valentis Licenses Electroporation Method From Genetronics.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Valentis, Inc., (VLTS) has obtained a nonexclusive license to in vivo electroporation technology from Genetronics Biomedical Corp. (GEB) for use in the development of certain Genemedicine products....

New Thyroid Test Approved In Canada For At-Home Use.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Biosafe Laboratories, Inc., has received approval from Health Canada for consumer use of its thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) test. Used to screen for Thyroid Disease, Biosafe's TSH test was...

Immucor Awarded Four-Year Contract From U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Immucor, Inc. (BLUD) has signed a four-year contract with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The Department of Veterans Affairs approves contracts that authorize purchasing for GSA/VA's Federal...

World's Smallest Liver Transplant Saves Baby's Life.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Her eyes search the hospital room and settle on a biohazard container, a little plastic box with a warning label the bright orange shade of a traffic cone. "It was that bad,'' Tia Dorsey says. She...

Islet Transplantation Offers Hope For Patients.
January 3, 2002... 2001 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Physicians at The University Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, successfully performed the region's first islet transplant on Friday, November 16, 2001. The University of Cincinnati Islet Transplant...

Cyclosporine A Reduces Chemotherapy Resistance.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in Texas have found a way to improve the efficacy of chemotherapy drugs used to treat high-risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients. ...

ADP Receptor Blockade Reduces Platelet Clumping.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Drugs that block adenosine 5'-diphosphate (ADP) receptors may be useful for preventing thrombotic events, according to researchers in Texas. Nancy A....

Second Stem Cell Transplant Effective After Relapse.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Acute leukemia patients who don't achieve a durable response to stem cell transplantation can benefit from a second transplant, researchers in Europe report....

Novel Device Takes Over Where Leeches Leave Off.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Since at least the time of the ancient Egyptians, the leech has often been a tool in the physician's medical kit. So intrinsic was the leech to the practice of the medical arts in antiquity and the...

Osteoprotegerin Reduces Bone Degradation.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - The protein osteoprotegerin (OPG) may help prevent bone damage in patients suffering from multiple myeloma, researchers say. "Multiple myeloma is a B-cell...

GATA-2 Needed For Notch-Induced Prevention Of Maturation.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in Japan have shed new light on the process by which the Notch protein prevents stem cell differentiation. "Notch signaling is involved in cell...

Patients Sought For Participation In Clinical Trial Of FLT3 Inhibitor.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- James Griffin, MD, the principal investigator of one of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Specialized Centers of Research (SCOR), has announced the start of a clinical trial to treat acute...

Wyeth-Ayerst Antibody-Targeted Chemotherapy Included In Practice Guidelines.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Thousands of patients affected by acute myeloid leukemia (AML) may benefit from new National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines regarding the appropriate treatment of AML, including the use...

Erythropoietin Treatment Gets Marketing Recommendation In European Union.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products (CPMP) of the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products has issued a positive opinion recommending approval of Transkaryotic Therapies'...

Iron Supplements Help African Children Learn To Walk And Talk.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, working with the Ministry of Health of Zanzibar, found that iron supplementation improved motor and language development in rural...

Arsenic Trioxide Shown Safe For A Variety Of Patients.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Data from clinical trials and postmarketing experience presented at the 43rd annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology show that Trisenox (arsenic trioxide) injection can be used to safely...

Phase II Results Show Inactine Effectively Treats Red Blood Cells.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- V.I. Technologies, Inc., (Vitex) announced results of a Phase II study of its Inactine Pathogen Inactivation System for red cells at the December 2001 American Society of Hematology meeting. The...

Red Cross, FDA Face January Hearing.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A federal judge set a January hearing on the government's effort to impose severe fines on the Red Cross over violations of blood safety rules. At the same time, Judge John Garrett Penn directed...

Interferon-(alpha) With Cytarabine Effective For Early Treatment.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in Spain say that the combination of interferon and a form of cytarabine can produce positive results in patients with newly diagnosed chronic...

Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Caprion To Develop Diagnostic Test.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc., (OCD) and Caprion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement to develop a human blood test for variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (vCJD),...

AAMC Issues New Guidelines On Financial Conflicts Of Interest.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has released the first report of its Task Force on Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Research "Protecting Subjects, Preserving Trust, Promoting...

Cryo-Cell Reports Fourth Quarter, Year-End Sales.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cryo-Cell International, Inc., (CCEL), has reported the company's fiscal fourth quarter and year-end sales for its umbilical cord blood (U-Cord) preservation program. Year-end sales figures are...

Pentostatin Shows Additional Activity Against Refractory Disease.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- SuperGen, Inc., has announced that data from a Phase II clinical study of its anticancer drug pentostatin (Nipent) showed a 60% overall response rate in treating patients with refractory chronic...

Nurses Have Better Touch When Taking Blood Pressure.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nurses cause less anxiety than doctors when taking a patient's blood pressure and this helps reduce white coat hypertension, according to a study in the December 2001 American Journal of Hypertension....

Nabi To Manufacture Lead Inhibitex Product Under New 10-Year Agreement.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nabi (NABI) has signed a 10-year agreement with Inhibitex, Inc., of Atlanta, Georgia, to manufacture its lead investigational product, an immune globulin therapy for preventing staphylococcal...

Scientist Use Gene Therapy To Correct Disease In Mice.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- For the first time scientists have corrected sickle cell disease in mice using gene therapy, according to a study supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National...

Busulfan Generates Continued Interest As Conditioning Agent.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Orphan Medical announced the presentation of the findings of 14 studies incorporating Busulfex (busulfan) Injection, which demonstrated that Busulfex continues to play an important role in the advances...

Long-Term Immunity Not Impaired.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United States say that patients who receive bone marrow transplants do not suffer from long-term immune impairment. Dr. Jan Storek and...

Company Updates Regulatory And Manufacturing Plans For Hemopure.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Biopure Corp. (BPUR) plans to file an electronic Biologic License Application (eBLA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its oxygen therapeutic Hemopure (hemoglobin glutamer - 250...

Enoxaparin Sodium More Effective Than Ximelagatran In Orthopedic Surgery Patients.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Aventis Pharmaceuticals announced that Lovenox (enoxaparin sodium) Injection was found to be significantly more effective than ximelagatran in reducing venous thromboembolic events (VTE) in orthopedic...

Haemonetics Signs Agreement For Baxter/Cerus Pathogen Inactivation Technology.
January 10, 2002... 2002 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Haemonetics Corp. (HAE) subsidiaries Baxter International, Inc., (BAX) and Cerus Corp. (CERS) have announced that Baxter and Haemonetics have entered into worldwide agreements that will enable...

Ferrous Sprinkles Useful For Pediatric Treatment.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Food with iron sprinkles can be used to treat anemic infants in developing countries, researchers say. "Standard therapy for anemia in infants is ferrous...

Highest Bone Marrow Plasma Cell Results Provide Most Accurate Prognosis.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United States say that the best method for measuring bone marrow plasma cell levels in stem cell-treated myeloma patients is the one that...

Busulfan Dose Targeting Improves Pediatric Engraftment.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Individualized pharmacokinetic testing should be used to fine-tune circulating levels of busulfan in children undergoing bone marrow transplantation,...

HIV Enhances Risk For Hepatitis C When Sexual Transmission Sole Risk Factor.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Hoping to shed new light on the role of sexual transmission in hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections, medical investigators in Naples, Italy, have produced data...

Discovery Could Lead To New Treatments For Cancer, Sickle-Cell Anemia.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have discovered a chemical compound that reverses a process called silencing, in which genes or chromosomal regions are shut off. Such...

Mismatched Stem Cells Can Engraft With Proper Conditioning.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - With the right conditioning regimens, leukemia patients can be safely and effectively treated with stem cell grafts using mismatched cells, researchers in the...

Oxaliplatin-Based Chemotherapy Safe, Effective.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - A chemotherapy regimen based on oxaliplatin can help patients suffering from high-risk non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, according to researchers in the United Kingdom....

White Blood Cell Count Predicts Mortality In Elderly Patients.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Elderly heart attack patients with high white blood cell (WBC) counts at hospital admission are much more likely to suffer potentially fatal complications,...

Epoetin Alfa Evaluated In HIV Patients On Antiretroviral Therapy.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The results of an interim analysis of an open-label study to assess the effect of once-weekly (QW) dosing of Procrit (Epoetin alfa) versus three-times-weekly (TIW) dosing in HIV positive patients...

Kourion Enters Research Collaboration With Case Western Reserve.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Kourion Therapeutics has entered into a collaboration with Case Western Reserve University and its professor of biology and world-renowned stem cell researcher, Arnold I. Caplan, PhD. In addition,...

General Accounting Office Probes Tainted Medical Research.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Universities and federal health officials must do more to prevent financial conflicts that could taint biomedical research and harm human subjects, a congressional review says. The study by the...

The Production Of Human Embryonic Stem Cells For Therapeutic Purposes Supported.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In response to the controversy that has recently arisen about the use of human embryos for therapeutic and nonreproductive purposes, the Opinion Group of the Observatory on Bioethics and Law of the...

Qualigen Raises $6 Million in Financing.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Qualigen, Inc., has raised $6 million in additional capital from a group of existing and new accredited investors to market the FastPack System, a proprietary blood testing system for performing rapid,...

Filgrastim May Help Infants With Neutrophil Dysfunction.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), also known as filgrastim, may be helpful for treating newborns with "quantitative and qualitative neutrophil...

DASH Diet And Reduced Sodium Lowers Blood Pressure For All.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The DASH diet plus reduced dietary sodium lowers blood pressure for all persons, according to the first detailed subgroup analysis of the DASH study results. The Dietary Approaches to Stop...

Not All Blood Pressure Medications Are Equal, Researchers Say.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A blood pressure medicine's success at lowering pressure shouldn't be the only measure of its effectiveness, say researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues. "We...

Complement Activation May Mediate Rituximab Complications.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United States and Europe may have found the culprit behind inflammatory rituximab-induced complications seen in non-Hodgkin lymphoma...

Keys To A Safer Work Environment: Postexposure Prophylaxis And Prevention.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michelle Marble, senior medical writer - Although accidents happen, those that happen in the healthcare setting can be life threatening. Providing safety devices and knowing what to do and when to...

Pain Drug Used In Adults Is Also Effective In Infants.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A drug that has been used in adult sickle cell patients to prevent excruciating pain crises common among sickle cell patients has now been shown to be effective in infants with the disease, according...

New Hope: Drug Effective In Adults May Also Help Very Young Children.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new study indicates that hydroxyurea, a drug proven to help prevent the excruciating pain crises of sickle cell disease in adults, is a potential treatment for infants with the genetic disorder. ...

Oxygent Reduces Blood Vessel Blockage.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp. has announced tht data from a preclinical study has demonstrated that Oxygent (perflubron emulsion) reduced the vaso-occlusion (blood vessel blockage) associated with...

Grafts Effective For Young Beta-Thalassemia Patients.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Stem cell transplantation can provide substantial benefit to young children suffering from beta-thalassemia, researchers in Turkey report. Dr. M. Akif...

Serum Cholinesterase Levels Predict Poor Outcome.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Low serum cholinesterase levels are a strong warning sign for complications after stem cell transplantation, researchers in Italy say. "Serum...

TT Virus Infections High Among Hemodialysis Patients In Argentinean Study.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Transfusion-transmitted virus, also known as TTV, has been detected in high rates among patients undergoing hemodialysis in Argentina. Transfusion-related...

Mismatched Donor May Work For Leukemia Patients.
January 17, 2002... 2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Using the latest DNA analysis techniques, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center scientists have discovered that some tissue-type mismatches are permissible in bone marrow or stem cell transplantation...

Enriched Stem Cell Treatment Can Help Severe Aplastic Anemia Patients.
January 24, 2002... 2002 JAN 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in South Korea say that transfusions of CD34-selected stem cells can be beneficial for patients suffering from severe aplastic anemia (SAA). ...

Ozonized Autotransfusion Helpful For Occlusive Arterial Disease Patients.
January 24, 2002... 2002 JAN 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Autotransfusions of ozonized blood can improve blood flow in patients suffering from peripheral occlusive arterial disease (POAD), researchers in Italy report....

DEK-CAN Translocation Affects Response To Cytokines.
January 24, 2002... 2002 JAN 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Chromosomal abnormalities in the DEK and CAN genes can have a significant impact on the effects of cytokines, researchers in Japan report. "The...

Leukemia Fusion Protein Enhances Stem Cell Expansion.
January 24, 2002... 2002 JAN 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United States say that a fusion protein found in some acute myelogenous leukemia patients may improve stem cell expansion capacity. ...

Red Cross Appeals For Blood.
January 24, 2002... 2002 JAN 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Just months after a post-September 11 surge of blood donations, the American Red Cross is warning that supplies are running low. Most of the Red Cross' 36 regional blood centers have half their...

Recombinant Factor VIIa Inhibits Fibrinolysis.
January 24, 2002... 2002 JAN 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in Europe say that recombinant factor VIIa treatment for hemophiliacs can be beneficial in several different ways. "Recombinant factor VIIa...