What's New - November 2011 (By topic)
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- Transfusion reaction education for BC pathologists (Oct. - Dec. 2011)
Global News
General
- Progress toward strengthening national blood transfusion services — 14 countries, 2008–2010. MMWR Nov 25; 60(46);1578–82.
- Guide to scientific writing (nice resource from AACC)
- World Anti-Doping Agency denies funding to validate test for plasticizers in blood bags because DEHP is widespread (10 Nov. 2011)
- 2011 AABB award recipients
Canada
- BC PBCO: Transfusion reaction education for BC pathologists (Oct. - Dec. 2011)
- New report supports NB setting up its own blood system (10 Nov. 2011)
- CBS: Blood component production (Susan Shimla, 17 Nov. 2011) (Guess how much RBC cost as of April 2011? Answer on slide 37)
- 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)
Australia
- Research Fellow, Transfusion Research Unit, Monash University (Closing date: 6 Dec. 2011)
- 2010 National Haemovigilance Report (National Blood Authority)
- Tasmanian coroner rules transfusion likely would have saved Jehovah's Witness patient (10 Nov. 2011)
- Magistrates Court of Tasmania: Investigation the death of Judith Louise Allen
Hong Kong
- Hospital releases report into investigation of patient given wrong blood (9 Nov. 2011) | Govt. press release
New Zealand
Pakistan
- Profitable blood transfusion business becomes deadly (15 Nov. 2011) (Tidbit: Over 90% of blood banks are for 'profit')
UK
- Minnesota Supreme Court rules that research on newborn blood samples requires parental consent (16 Nov. 2011)
- UK begins trials for new transfusion protocols in trauma (18 Nov. 2011)
- Report on patient consent for blood transfusion (SaBTo, 21 Oct. 2011)
- Euro ban on human embryonic stem cell patents threatens to undermine Scottish synthetic blood research (28 Oct. 2011)
- UK BTS: Presentations from Regional Transfusion Committees education event: 'Transfusion: are we over-reacting?' (14 Oct. 2011)
- Could we face the return of CJD? Experts fear it may lie dormant in thousands (1 Nov. 2011)
- Health Protection Agency: Biannual CJD updateTwo NIH patients die from septic shock following platelet transfusions known to be infected (25 Oct. 2011)
USA
- Minnesota Supreme Court rules that research on newborn blood samples requires parental consent (16 Nov. 2011)
- Two NIH patients die from septic shock following platelet transfusions known to be infected (25 Oct. 2011)
Industry news
- Merck to pay almost $1 billion to settle Vioxx charges (22 Nov. 2011)
- Big Pharma pays $billions in 2011 to settle shady marketing practices in USA:
- Abbott Laboratories (USA) reported to pay $1.3 billion to settle claims it illegally marketed drug (21 Oct. 2011)
- GlaxoSmith Kline (UK) pays $3bn (£1.9bn) to settle probe by US authorities (3 Nov. 2011)
- Merck (Germany) subpoenaed by U.S. regulators over marketing practices (9 Aug. 2011)
- Serono (US affiliate of Merck) pays $44m to settle allegations it paid healthcare providers to promote or prescribe drug
Also see TraQ's Industry News
Diseases in the news
CJD: See UK above
* See TraQ's 'Disease clearinghouses' in top menu
Resource Library / Links
Canada (ORBCoN): Toolkit for introducing a new blood component (v1, Sept. 2011)
Guide to scientific writing (nice resource from AACC)
"Down Under': National haemovigilance reports (see Australia & NZ above)
UK:
Presentations from SHOT Symposium 2011
Presentations from Regional Transfusion Committees education event (14 Oct. 2011)
TM blog: Only in the UK & Down Under? Pity! (Musings on hemovigilance)
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Journals / Newsletters / Posters / Books
- Giarratana M-C, et al. Proof of principle for transfusion of in vitro–generated red blood cells. Blood 2011 Nov 11; 118(19): 5071-9.
- He Y, et al. Large-scale production of functional human serum albumin from transgenic rice seeds. PNAS 2011. Pub. online 31 Oct. 2011.
- Recombinant HSA from rice (21 Oct. 2011)
- Liumbruno GM, Rafanelli D. Appropriateness of blood transfusion and physicians' education: a continuous challenge for Hospital Transfusion Committees? Blood Transfus 2011 Oct 25:1-3. EPub. ahead of print.
- Uhl L. Patient blood management: A 68-year-old woman contemplating autologous blood donation before elective surgery. JAMA 2011 Nov 2;306(17):1902-10. Pub. online 11 Oct. 2011
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