- Safety trumps politics in blood donation (24 May 2013)
- In absence of sufficient data, Health Canada used Monte Carlo statistical method to determine risk probabilities of changing MSM policy (CMAJ, 28 May 2013)
- HC changed policy based on results of computer simulations involving random sampling from probability distributions. And yes, the Monte Carlo method gets its name from the gambling casino in Monte Carlo. It was invented in late1940s by a scientist working at Los Alamos National Laboratory whose uncle gambled there.
- CBS changes MSM policy
- No sex with man in the last 5 years eligible to donate (22 May 2013) | CBS did not go to 1 yr deferral as Australia and UK did
- Dr. Dana Devine, VP, Medical, Scientific & Research Affairs, CBS: Limited no. gay men eligible but will include men who experimented with MSM as youth but are now heterosexual, and men raped as boys
- Interview with Dr. Dana Devine on CBS change in MSM policy (uploaded 14 May 2013)
- Dr. Dana Devine: Will take years to gather valid dataset to evaluate impact of changed policy on blood safety data as incidence of HIV+ donors is extremely low
- CSTM Annual Meeting (Conjoint Scientific Meeting with CBS and H-Q): June 7-9, Edmonton, Alberta
- CBS: Sudbury platelet collection to be closed on 31 May, 2013 (25 April 2013) | Ottawa to supply Sudbury area with platelets
- CBS members of the Manitoba Government and General Employees' Union prepare to strike (8 May 2013)
- More on paying for plasma
- CSTM responds to blog, 'Stop children, what's that sound' (Musings on commercialization of our blood supply) (25 Mar. 2013)
- Canadian Hemophilia Society: Draft policy on paid plasma donations (11 Mar. 2013)
- It is difficult to put a price on human blood (11 Mar. 2013) by Margaret Sumerville, Director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law
- Author examines philosophical arguments on commercializing the human body and the 'disturbing image of middle men making large profits out of one person's poverty and another's dire medical need'
- TM blog update (19 Mar. 2013): Stop children, what's that sound (Musings on commercialization of our blood supply)
- Paying donors for plasma: Have we forgotten about tainted blood? (3 Mar. 2013)
- Stop for-profit blood clinics, Canadian Doctors for Medicare urge (13 Mar. 2013) | CDM website
- CBS CEO Sher clarifies CBS's role in national and international collection and use of plasma (13 Mar. 2013) | Prohibiting pay-for-plasma would harm patients (Sher's article in Toronto Star, 13 Mar. 2013)
- Ontario asks Health Canada to hold off approval of blood plasma clinics (11 Mar. 2013)
- Payment for blood donor plasma comes to Canada (24 Feb. 2013)
- CBS seeks corporate financing for umbilical-cord blood bank (10 Feb. 2013) Seems philanthropy is wave of the future for Canada's health care system
- CBS: Dr. Dana Devine discusses recent MSM submission to Health Canada (~7 min. audio file) | Dana Devine
- Economic Club of Canada announces official support for CBS campaign "For All Canadians" (11 Jan. 2013) | CBS needs to raise $12.5 million by 2014 for national public umbilical cord blood bank, then governments will maintain it
- Jehovah’s Witnesses quietly soften position on blood transfusions (20 Dec. 2012)
- Héma-Québec' quarantines 70% of blood supply over blood bag leaks (29 Nov. 2012)
- CBS move to amend blood donation rules over MSM doesn’t go far enough, says thwarted donor (26 Nov. 2012)
- CBS CEO Graham Sher, MD, PhD is AABB president-elect
- National cord blood bank to launch in Ottawa | CBC notice (5 Nov. 2012)
- CBS report to Canadians, 2011-12.
- CBS issues recall of Regina donations for 1 year (One oral donor screen question not always asked of some repeat donors
- Errors, mislabelled samples pose 'staggering' cost to Canada's blood banks (6 Aug. 2012) | Misleading?
- New company plans to open a plasma centre that pays donors (Just learned of this development)
- CADTH - 3 reports on therapeutic reviews of New Oral Anticoagulants for the Prevention of Thromboembolic Events in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation (April and June 2012)
- CBS to implement 2-site National Contact Centre (29 June 2012)
- CBS to ask Health Canada to lift lifetime ban on MSM (5 July 2012)
- We are sad to report that Maureen (Webb) Ffoulkes-Jones, ART (CSMLS) died on 18 June, 2012 in Calgary: Guest Book
- CSTM 2011 & 2012 annual meeting abstracts
- CBS: Blueprint for a national, integrated organs and tissues system released (20 June 2012)
- Photos from 2012 CSTM meeting in Halifax
- Framework for appropriate use and distribution of Solvent Detergent Treated Plasma in Canada (NAC, 16 Feb. 2012)
- CBS decides to close Thunder Bay plasma centre
- Héma-Québec's Public Cord Blood Bank 1st Canadian cord blood bank to be awarded FACT Accreditation (6 Mar. 2012) (Héma-Québec's public cord blood bank)
- CSTM launches redesigned website
- Bloodtechnet learning competition returns Feb. 24, 2012 | New timeline
- NB abandons plan to create independent blood agency but opponents of CBS plant closure plan to continue fight (13 Jan. 2012)
- Obituary: A humble man and a great Canadian, Dr. B.P.L. (Paddy) Moore, who died on Dec. 5, 2011
- New report supports NB setting up its own blood system (10 Nov. 2011)
- Health professional compensation & evolution in use of services important health care cost drivers of past decade (CIHA report, 3 Nov. 2011)
- CBS to relax restrictions on MSM donors (21 Oct. 2011)
- BC PBCO: Who's who and what's new (Cecilia Li & Tanya Petraszko / Joint PBCO/CBS presentations , 28 Sept. 2011, Castelgar, BC)
- Héma-Québec makes blood donation more accessible to the deaf (3 Oct. 2011)
- Breach of medical laboratory licensing regulations, exposed by pathologist whistleblower (since fired), linked to pathologist shortage (CMAJ, 9 Aug. 2011)
- Ottawa Hospital publicizes professional dress code (Patients complained they couldn't tell nurses from others) (CMAJ, 9 Aug. 2011)
- NB releases report on blood services (27 July 2011)
- CBS statement on review of NB blood options (29 July 2011)
- Dr. Noel Buskard, outspoken patient advocate, dead at 72 (20 July 2011)
- BC woman calls for air ambulances to carry blood (19 July 2011) Austalian innovation saved daughter's life
- 'Mother of all cells' identified by Toronto researchers (8 July 2011)
- CBS issues rallying cry to Canadians (13 June 2011)
- National cord blood bank to recruit ethnic donors aggressively
- Blood supply secure despite E. coli outbreak (3 June 2011) | Also see Hemolytic uremic syndromea>
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