- MEETINGS (Spring/Summer)
- Canada: 13th Annual CBS International Symposium: Blood-Borne Pathogens: Defend, Detect, And Destroy (Toronto, Sept. 26, 2015)
- USA:
- AABB Annual Meeting (Oct. 24-27, 2015, Anaheim, CA)
- ASH Annual Meeting (Dec. 5-8, 2015, Orlando, FL)
- Is it more acceptable to sell your body or your body part? (2 July 2015)
- Elias JJ, Lacetera N, Macis M. Markets and morals: an experimental survey study. PLoS One. 2015 Jun 1;10(6):e0127069. eCollection 2015. (Full free text)
- BC hospital needs ethnically diverse blood for CBS Cord Blood Bank (25 June 2015)
- Health Canada: Blood Regulations (TraQ's resource links updated)
- Meeting: 13th Annual CBS International Symposium: Blood-Borne Pathogens: Defend, Detect, And Destroy (Toronto, Sept. 26, 2015)
- Also see Diseases (WNV) below
- Restrictive policies for blood transfusions could produce significant cost savings for NHS (10 July 2015)
- Jairath V, et al. Restrictive versus liberal blood transfusion for acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (TRIGGER): a pragmatic, open-label, cluster randomised feasibility trial. Lancet 2015 Jul 11:386 (9989)137-44.
- What is artificial blood and why is UK going to trial it? (25 June 2015)
- Synthetic blood transfusion tests to begin by 2017 (25 June 2015)
- NHSBT Research and Development: Strategic Plan 2015-20 (June 2015)
- Also see Resource Library below for SHOT posters.
- Iggbo connects doctors with phlebotomists through a mobile app (~Uber cabs) (13 July 2015)
- Iggbo
- Business stimulated by government crackdown on practice of paying process-and-handling fees to doctors that could be considered kickbacks.
- Background: WSJ exposé puts HDL on the defensive (9 Sept. 2014)
- Medscape ranks 2015 earnings of 25 specialists. How do pathologists fare? (Dark Daily, 17 June 2015)
- Meetings:
- AABB Annual Meeting (Oct. 24-27, 2015, Anaheim, CA)
- ASH Annual Meeting (Dec. 5-8, 2015, Orlando, FL)
- Australia: CSL is plasma industry's Saudi Arabia with a 51% gross profit margin (30 June 2015)
- USA: Self-made billionaire’s blood testing company clears FDA, receives backlash (8 July 2015)
- Theranos
- Sample prices: ABO/Rh $4.10 / Antibody screen (rbc) $25.75
- Capitalizing on opportunities in cord blood industry growth (19 June 2015) | One advice tidbit: Sell more effectively
- Mediware subsidiary, Strategic Healthcare Group, increases its clinical experts, inc. an ex-AABB president (17 June 2015)
- Big Pharma surges to $1 trillion in sales (17 June 2015)
- Novartis remains number one to 2020 with sales of $53.3b, 5.4% share of world market
- Also see USA above (Iggbo)
- WNV
- Canada (BC Ministry of Health): 2015 Action Plan for WNV and the Blood Supply
- Campbell HE, Stokes EA, Bargo DN, Curry N, Lecky FE, Edwards A, et al. Quantifying the healthcare costs of treating severely bleeding major trauma patients: a national study for England. Crit Care. 2015 Jul 6;19(1):276. [Epub ahead of print]
- * Elias JJ, Lacetera N, Macis M. Markets and morals: an experimental survey study. PLoS One. 2015 Jun 1;10(6):e0127069. eCollection 2015.
- Flood LS, Higbie J. A comparative assessment of nursing students' cognitive knowledge of blood transfusion using lecture and simulation. Nurse Educ Pract. 2015 May 27. pii: S1471-5953(15)00089-X. [Epub ahead of print]
- Irani MS, Figueroa D, Savage G. Acute hemolytic transfusion reaction due to anti-Leb. Transfusion. 2015 May 28. [Epub ahead of print]
- Jairath V, et al. Restrictive versus liberal blood transfusion for acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (TRIGGER): a pragmatic, open-label, cluster randomised feasibility trial. Lancet 2015 Jul 11:386 (9989)137-44.
- Kreuger AL, Middelburg RA, Zwaginga JJ, van der Bom JG, Kerkhoffs J. Clinical practice of platelet transfusions in haemato-oncology. Vox Sang. 2015 Jul;109(1):91-4. Epub 2015 Mar 31.
- Tchakarov A, Hobbs R, Bai Y. Transfusion of D+ red blood cells to D- individuals in trauma situations. Immunohematology. 2014;30(4):149-52.
- Wallace PJ, Connell NT, Abkowitz JL. The role of hematologists in a changing United States health care system. Blood. 2015 Apr 16;125(16):2467-70. Epub 2015 Mar 6.
- Yeh DD, Naraghi L, Larentzakis A, Nielsen N, Dzik W, Bittner EA, et al. Peer-to-peer physician feedback improves adherence to blood transfusion guidelines in the surgical intensive care unit. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015 Jan;79(1):65-70.
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