Blood Weekly articles from October 2002

Blood Weekly archives from October 2002

Molecular HIV/HCV screen fast, accurate.
October 3, 2002... 2002 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United States say that a nucleic acid test can quickly and accurately find HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) in donated blood. Janet Vargo...

Drug shows promise in treating severe, often-lethal complication of stem cell treatment.
October 3, 2002... 2002 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A study led by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has shown that a drug extracted from porcine intestinal tissue reduced the risk of death in patients who experienced a severe and often-fatal...

Delayed "carrier" marrow infusion improves engraftment.
October 3, 2002... 2002 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United States have developed a novel technique for improving stem cell engraftment after transplantation. Brian W. Soper and colleagues...

No link between deferiprone and liver fibrosis in transfused patients.
October 3, 2002... 2002 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - The results of an international multicenter study suggest the chelation drug deferiprone does not contribute to hepatic fibrosis in people who receive blood...

American Red Cross launches lifesaving partnership.
October 3, 2002... 2002 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The American Red Cross in September launched a month-long "Together, We Can Save a Life" public awareness campaign with the support of Microsoft, Yahoo! and America Online. The campaign will...

CDC continues to investigate transmission through organ transplant.
October 3, 2002... 2002 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Georgia State Department of Health, the Florida Department of Health, and the Health Resources and...

Stem cell grafts do not lower mortality risk for low-risk patients.
October 3, 2002... 2002 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Bone marrow transplantation does not confer a survival advantage to many patients suffering from acute myeloid leukemia (AML), researchers in the United Kingdom...

EluSys gets grant for anthrax drug.
October 3, 2002... 2002 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A biotech startup company has won a $2.8 million U.S. government grant to help refine technology to destroy toxins that anthrax bacteria release in the bloodstream. The grant is the government's...

Cell Robotics begins laser infant heelstick evaluation.
October 3, 2002... 2002 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cell Robotics International, Inc., (CRII.OB), announced that it has finalized arrangements to begin laser infant heelstick evaluation. Gary Oppedahl, Cell Robotics' president and CEO, states, "Cell...

Medical device company details responses to FDA.
October 3, 2002... 2002 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- CryoLife, Inc., (CRY), a leader in the development and commercialization of living human tissue implantable devices, and a manufacturer and distributor of stentless heart valves and surgical adhesives,...

Plan to certify annual report, financial statements announced by blood transfusion instrument maker.
October 3, 2002... 2002 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Immucor, Inc., (BLUD), a global leader in providing automated instrument-reagent systems to the blood transfusion industry, announced that its annual report on Form 10-K will be accompanied by the...

Second quarter 2002 revenues increase 12.3% says molecular diagnostics firm.
October 3, 2002... 2002 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Gen-Probe, Inc., an established leader in molecular diagnostics based on its patented nucleic acid testing (NAT) technologies, reported its financial results for the second quarter and 6 months ended...

Hema Metrics granted FDA clearance for URR feature of Crit-Line device.
October 3, 2002... 2002 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hema Metrics, Inc., announced that the urea reduction ratio (URR) feature associated with the Crit-Line device received FDA 510(k) clearance for sale in the U.S. The URR technology provides for...

Human blood clotting factor achieves sustained levels in rhesus macaques.
October 3, 2002... 2002 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Humans with hemophilia B could some day be treated with gene therapies targeting the liver. Patients with hemophilia B do not produce enough human factor IX...

Medical panel urges overhaul of military vaccine program.
October 3, 2002... 2002 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Warning that "infectious agents remain a substantial threat to the operational capacity of U.S. military forces" and that "protecting the health of military personnel is essential to national security,"...

Nonin and Penell to develop first Bluetooth-enabled pulse oximeter.
October 3, 2002... 2002 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nonin Medical, Inc., developer and manufacturer of pulse oximetry and other medical monitoring technologies, announced an agreement with Penell A/S of Denmark, a supplier of wireless solutions for...

Double graft purging raises efficacy, risk.
October 3, 2002... 2002 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Double purging of hematopoietic stem cell grafts increases their efficacy but also heightens the risk of life-threatening complications, according to...

Graft T-cell depletion doesn't affect cytomegalovirus risk.
October 3, 2002... 2002 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Stem cell graft recipients' cytomegalovirus history is the best predictor of post-transplant infection, researchers say. "Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection...

Jehovah's Witness gets synthetic blood.
October 3, 2002... 2002 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A 38-year-old Colorado Springs, Colorado woman has received a rare emergency transfusion of experimental synthetic blood at Denver Health Medical Center. As a Jehovah's Witness, Sheryl Padilla was...

Leukodepletion of platelet products has little impact on anticytomegalovirus efficacy.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Removing white blood cells from platelet products adds little benefit for transfused stem cell graft recipients, researchers in the United Kingdom report. ...

Cord blood recipients have high herpesvirus-6 infection risk.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Stem cell grafts derived from umbilical cord blood can heighten recipients' risk of active human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) infection, researchers in Japan warn....

Compassionate use of PolyHeme saved a life.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Even though PolyHeme, Northfield Laboratories, Inc.,'s (NFLD) oxygen-carrying blood substitute, has yet to clear FDA hurdles for commercial use, Michael Rie knows the product works and believes in its...

Blood transfusions unlikely to transmit West Nile virus.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Contracting the much-publicized West Nile virus through blood transfusion is extremely unlikely, researchers in the United States find. "Human West Nile...

Five kidney dialysis deaths prompt Baxter/FDA action.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that Baxter Healthcare Corp. has notified dialysis centers that certain blood tubing used with Baxter's Meridian dialysis machines may possibly...

NHF calls for reauthorization of blood safety advisory group at HHS.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In a letter addressed to Eve Slater, MD, FACC, assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Hemophilia Federation (NHF) President Glenn Pierce, MD, PhD,...

Jack Goldstein named president of blood testing division.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Chiron Corporation (CHIR) has named Jack Goldstein as president of Chiron's blood testing division. Based in Emeryville, Goldstein will be responsible for the commercial operations of Chiron's...

Missing Chinese AIDS activist named winner of U.S.-Canadian health award.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A missing Chinese AIDS activist who reportedly has been detained by China's secret police was named the recipient September 12, 2002, of a new health award given by U.S. and Canadian groups. Wan...

Too much blood donated after September 11, feds say.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- More than 200,000 units of blood had to be thrown away in the weeks after September 11, congressional auditors reported September 10, 2002, as donations from a shaken public far outstripped the needs...

Sangart awarded patent for blood substitute product.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Sangart, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing oxygen transport agents, announced that it received a notice of allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the patent...

Finger-stick test launched.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- cdSCAN, the latest innovation in the screening for celiac disease (CD), has been developed by York Nutritional Laboratories. With only 1 out of 80 of the projected 1 million individuals in this...

Blood safety company reports second quarter 2002 financial results.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- V.I. Technologies, Inc., (VITX), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing products that improve the safety of the transfusion blood supply by pathogen reduction or removal, announced its...

Stem cell-based therapy developer announces second quarter 2002 financial results.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- StemCells, Inc., (STEM) reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2002. StemCells' net loss was $3.1 million, or $0.13 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2002,...

Pediatric nephrologists praise Hema Metrics' Crit-Line.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- On the heels of its recently awarded Seal of Acceptance from the Alliance of Children's Hospitals, Hema Metrics, a medical technology company offering noninvasive blood monitoring for use in...

Link to isoimmunization in ABO-incompatible, DAT-negative newborns unlikely.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pediatric researchers caution that jaundice in certain newborns probably is not due to isoimmunization, as conventional wisdom has held. "It is stated that the direct antiglobulin (Coombs') test...

New study combines Prograf with Rapamune or CellCept.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Results of a clinical study combining Prograf (tacrolimus)-based immunosuppression with Rapamune (sirolimus) or CellCept (mycophenolate mofetil) were presented at the XIX International Congress of the...

Proteosome inhibitor PS341 represses myeloma in preclinical study.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - The novel proteosome inhibitor PS-341 has extended survival in preclinical studies of human myeloma. Researchers announced in the September 2002 issue of...

Masimo launches training web site.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Masimo Corp., the innovator of Signal Extraction pulse oximetry, Masimo SET, announced the launch of MasimoU.com, a web site dedicated to clinical training on Masimo SET technology and pulse oximetry...

FDA to consolidate review responsibilities for new pharmaceutical products.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Dr. Lester M. Crawford, deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has announced the consolidation of FDA's responsibility for reviewing new pharmaceutical products into its...

New CEO outlines strategic plans for Flocor maker.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- CytRx Corp.'s (CYTR) new CEO, Steven A. Kriegsman, said he plans to shift the company's focus to licensing and strategic alliances for the development and marketing of its products. The company's...

High stem cell doses do not prevent T-cell depletion side effects.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - The risks associated with T-cell depletion of allogeneic stem cell grafts cannot be overcome with high stem cell doses, researchers in Switzerland find. ...

Post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorder relatively common but treatable.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) is an under-recognized risk of autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT), researchers in Canada...

Ursodeoxycholic acid can prevent post-transplant liver dysfunction.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) can help prevent liver disorders often seen after allogeneic stem cell transplantation, researchers report. Tapani Ruutu and...

CDC confirms West Nile transmitted through donated organs.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Having confirmed that West Nile virus can be spread through organ transplants, U.S. health officials have found new evidence that it may be transmitted through blood transfusions as well. The U.S....

More hand transplants to be performed, predict experts.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Although since the world's first hand transplant in 1998 there have been just 11 additional cases, results presented at the XIX International Congress of the Transplantation Society indicate the...

Transplants in HIV patients should proceed, but drug interactions a concern.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- While historically surgeons have been reluctant to transplant patients with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), in recent years some centers have begun to accept patients with well-controlled HIV...

CDC continues to track disease in United States.
October 10, 2002... 2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to work with state and local health departments to help control West Nile virus (WNV). At press time 1438 cases of West Nile...

Emergency department pneumococcal vaccination could reach many at-risk patients.
October 17, 2002... 2002 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The emergency department may be a useful and cost-effective healthcare setting in which to give pneumococcal vaccination to prevent pneumococcal bacteremia (blood-borne infection) in at-risk patients,...

Monocyte activation increases in chronic hepatitis C patients given therapy.
October 17, 2002... 2002 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Scientists have determined blood cells on the frontlines of war against disease don't lose their abilities in patients infected with chronic hepatitis C. ...

Transfusions linked with increased mortality.
October 17, 2002... 2002 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Anemia and blood transfusion are common in critically ill patients, but the use of transfusions also appears to be associated with increased mortality, according to an article in the September 25,...

Extended antithymocyte globulin infusions reduce toxicity.
October 17, 2002... 2002 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in Germany recommend administering antithymocyte globulin to stem cell recipients by extended infusion to prevent toxicity. "Antithymocyte...

Helper T cell precursors don't predict PBSC graft outcome.
October 17, 2002... 2002 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Helper T lymphocyte precursor (HTLp) counts have little prognostic value in peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) recipients, researchers in Australia report. ...

Routine blood product leukodepletion not recommended.
October 17, 2002... 2002 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Routine removal of white blood cells (WBC) from blood products is not cost effective, researchers in the United States argue. "Recipient exposure to...

High-dose cyclophosphamide safe, effective against refractory hemolytic anemia.
October 17, 2002... 2002 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In a small study, high-dose cyclophosphamide was safe and effective treatment against refractory autoimmune hemolytic anemia. The drug, "without stem cell rescue, has been used successfully to...

Radiometer America to be sole supplier of blood gas products for UPMC.
October 17, 2002... 2002 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Radiometer America Inc., Westlake, Ohio, has signed a 5-year agreement to supply blood gas analyzers and related products and services to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Health System...

Patent granted covering capture of cells, organisms.
October 17, 2002... 2002 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cepheid (CPHD) announced the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 6,440,725 covering apparatus and methods for the capture of cells and microorganisms on a filter or membrane and the extraction, purification,...

Engineers model blood flow.
October 17, 2002... 2002 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A computer simulation that shows how branches and bends in blood vessels disturb smooth-flowing blood and contribute to heart disease has been built by researchers at the University of California,...

Erythropoietin a candidate for relieving cardiac ischemia.
October 17, 2002... 2002 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Scientists in Germany envision the hormone erythropoietin as playing a significant role in relieving myocardial ischemia. That vision is built on the...

EuroSPAH intravascular sonotherapy trial results presented at society meeting.
October 17, 2002... 2002 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- PharmaSonics, Inc., announced the presentation of the results of the EuroSPAH clinical trial, a European double-blind, multicenter randomized study of antirestenotic treatment in de novo stented...

NIH grant received for stem cell-based predictive assays.
October 17, 2002... 2002 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- VistaGen Therapeutics, Inc., a privately held biotechnology company developing stem cell technologies for drug discovery and development, announced that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has...

Bone marrow grafts can trigger angiogenesis in ischemic limbs.
October 17, 2002... 2002 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Bone marrow transplantation can promote the development of new blood vessels in ischemic limbs, researchers in Japan report. "Preclinical studies have...

Macrophage migratory inhibitory factor may play role in GvHD development.
October 17, 2002... 2002 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers have identified a protein that could play a key role in the development of graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) after stem cell transplantation. ...

Researchers engineer virus that blocks common genetic defect.
October 17, 2002... 2002 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists for the first time have engineered a harmless virus to correct, rather than replace, the genetic defect causing the most common single gene disorder. The new research presents a novel...

Rise in Red Cross prices squeezing New Hampshire hospitals.
October 17, 2002... 2002 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The rising cost of blood products supplied by the American Red Cross is squeezing some of New Hampshire's hospitals, but they say there are few reliable alternatives to the nonprofit supplier. ...

Alloantigens' codominant expression may impact immune response.
October 17, 2002... 2002 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Recent findings suggest that the polymorphic MHC class I-related chain A (MICA) gene is codominantly expressed and this may play a role in the body's immune response to allograft transplantation. ...

Acute paralysis seen in infected patients.
October 17, 2002... 2002 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- U.S. health officials are warning doctors that the West Nile virus can cause acute paralysis after the mosquito-borne virus apparently caused six people to become paralyzed. The U.S. Centers for...

Needle-free blood and tissue measurements on horizon.
October 24, 2002... 2002 OCT 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Whether 240 miles above in the International Space Station or firmly grounded on Earth, medical testing without needles wins everyone's vote. Dr. Babs Soller is developing a sensor system that will...

Hemoglobin substitute with erythropoietin safe, effective transfusion substitute.
October 24, 2002... 2002 OCT 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers have identified an method for treating anemia without transfusion, which could aid treatment of patients who refuse blood products for religious or...

Scientist discusses blood cell damage from biomedical devices.
October 24, 2002... 2002 OCT 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- While biomedical devices such as prosthetic heart valves, heart-assist devices, oxygenators, vascular grafts and hemodialysis systems can help to save or significantly extend lives, these same devices...

Targeted conditioning regimen effective for unrelated stem cell graft recipients.
October 24, 2002... 2002 OCT 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United States have identified a conditioning regimen that could reduce the risk of complications after stem cell transplantation for...

High-dose antithymocyte globulin prophylaxis may be counterproductive.
October 24, 2002... 2002 OCT 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - High doses of antithymocyte globulin (ATG) may be dangerous for stem cell transplant recipients, researchers in France warn. "Antithymocyte globulin is...

Red Cross doesn't want fears of West Nile virus to affect blood supply.
October 24, 2002... 2002 OCT 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- With the incomplete information about West Nile virus' effect on patient care, the American Red Cross, Penn-Jersey Region, is concerned that donors will be hesitant about donating their blood. ...

U.S. Army grant used to develop Hemopure.
October 24, 2002... 2002 OCT 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Biopure Corporation (BPUR) announced that it has received a $908,900 grant from the U.S. Department of the Army to develop the company's oxygen therapeutic Hemopure [hemoglobin glutamer - 250 (bovine),...

Scientists test blood sterilization.
October 24, 2002... 2002 OCT 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Several hundred transfusion recipients around the country - adults undergoing heart surgery and children with certain inherited anemias - are being enrolled in a bold experiment: They'll receive...

TIGRIS instrument system to be used for clinical diagnostic testing.
October 24, 2002... 2002 OCT 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Gen-Probe, Inc., an established leader in molecular diagnostics based on its patented nucleic acid testing technologies, announced results from the initial field evaluation (beta trial) of the...

Autoimmune disorder more common in chronic hepatitis C than suspected.
October 24, 2002... 2002 OCT 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - The autoimmune illness immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) has been linked to chronic hepatitis C by researchers at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla,...

Stem cell transplantation may be an effective treatment.
October 24, 2002... 2002 OCT 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Melanoma patients can benefit from hematopoietic stem cell transplants with adoptive T-cell transfer, researchers in Germany say. "It has been shown that...

Phase I trial initiated to evaluate safety of AMD-3100.
October 24, 2002... 2002 OCT 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- AnorMED announced that it has initiated a new phase I clinical trial in cancer patients to determine the safety and potential of AMD-3100 as a new agent for stem cell transplantation. Stem cell...

Transcription factor Slug plays role in hematopoietic signaling.
October 24, 2002... 2002 OCT 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in Spain have identified a transcription factor that could be a target for stem cell mobilizing agents. "The stem cell factor c-kit signaling...

Neuron Therapeutics to begin SAH study.
October 24, 2002... 2002 OCT 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Neuron Therapeutics, Inc., a developer of treatments for neurologic disorders, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its investigational new drug (IND) application to treat...

U.S. supplied bioterror stock to Iraq, records indicate.
October 24, 2002... 2002 OCT 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Iraq's bioweapons program that President Bush wants to eradicate got its start with help from Uncle Sam 2 decades ago, according to government records getting new scrutiny in light of the discussion of...

House OKs mosquito-control programs.
October 24, 2002... 2002 OCT 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hoping to ease the spread of West Nile virus across the U.S., the House passed a bill October 1, 2002, that would authorize $100 million in grants for communities to develop mosquito-control programs....

Signs of virus found in breast milk.
October 24, 2002... 2002 OCT 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have found genetic signs of West Nile virus in the breast milk of a new mother battling the infection, the latest surprise as the virus continues to spread throughout the United States. ...

EVA bags best for transporting frozen blood.
October 31, 2002... 2002 OCT 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Storage bags made from poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) (EVA) should be used to transport frozen blood products, researchers in the United States argue. ...

Transfusion decliners usually have low mortality risk.
October 31, 2002... 2002 OCT 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Refusing surgical transfusions for religious or other reasons has a limited impact on mortality risk, researchers in the United States say. "Guidelines...