18Jan/13

Make regular blood donation a New Year's resolution – Dodge City Daily Globe


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Make regular blood donation a New Year’s resolution
Dodge City Daily Globe
Neither the flu shot nor the intranasal form of the influenza vaccine is cause for a blood donation deferral because there is no risk of transmitting influenza after receiving the vaccines. Q. How is the flu impacting the blood supply? A. The flu
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18Jan/13

Clinical trial proves the effectiveness of faecal transplants

A little more than a year ago, I wrote a piece in Scientific American about faecal transplants — replacing the stool in someone’s colon with stool donated by someone else — as a treatment for the pernicious, recurrent diarrhoea caused by Clostridium difficile infection. I have been a journalist for two decades, and some of my stories have won prizes, triggered hearings and legislation, and …