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COPYRIGHT 2007 United Press International
Byline: ADRIANNE APPEL
BOSTON, July 31 (UPI) -- Estimates of the number of people who can donate blood are off by as much as one-third, meaning blood banks may have to work harder to recruit donors, a new study reported this week.
The study in Transfusion, the journal of the American Association of Blood Banks, estimates that 66 million fewer people are eligible to donate blood -- only about 37 percent of the U.S. population.
"The conventional method of calculating eligible donors indicates that there are approximately 177 million eligible donors in...
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