15Feb/16

Ghana: 2016 Edition of MTN Ghana Foundation Annual Blood Donation Exercise Held in Accra – AllAfrica.com


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Ghana: 2016 Edition of MTN Ghana Foundation Annual Blood Donation Exercise Held in Accra
AllAfrica.com
Since its institution, Mobile Telecommunications Network (MTN) Ghana Foundation’s annual blood donation exercise, organized to celebrate Valentine’s Day, has yielded more than 2,000 pints of blood to support the blood banks of the various medical …
Blood shortage cause of death of many accident victims in U/EGhanaWeb

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15Feb/16

Family of organ donor ask others to become donors – KXII-TV


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Family of organ donor ask others to become donors
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Her parents made the brave decision to donate her organs to someone in need and now they are asking others to sign up to be a donor. Smith spent her days hunting and fishing with her dad, playing basketball and dress up and going to school. “Lauren was …

15Feb/16

Invariant natural killer T cells in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: killer choice for natural suppression – Nature.com

Invariant natural killer T cells in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: killer choice for natural suppression
Nature.com
TLI and ATG conditioning with low risk of graft-versus-host disease retains antitumor reactions after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation from related and unrelated donors. Blood 2009; 114: 1099–1109. | Article | PubMed | ISI |; Haraguchi K, …

15Feb/16

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for homozygous β-thalassemia and β-thalassemia/hemoglobin E patients from … – Nature.com

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for homozygous β-thalassemia and β-thalassemia/hemoglobin E patients from
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Thalassemia-free survival after allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) is about 80–90% with either matched-related or -unrelated donors. We explored the use of a mismatched-related (‘haplo- ‘) donor. All patients received two courses of

15Feb/16

Victims of contaminated blood scandal face major cut to payments from government – The Guardian


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Victims of contaminated blood scandal face major cut to payments from government
The Guardian
In the 1970s and 1980s these were imported from the US where donors were paid – a practice that increased the risk of unsuitable blood – because there was a severe shortage of clotting factors in the UK at the time. Donors in both countries included