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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
- Mistake to shut down platelet donor service (letter to the editor)
CBS members of the Manitoba Government and General Employees' Union prepare to strike (8 May 2013)
- Province puts brakes on strike, deems CBS an essential service (10 May 2013)
More on paying for plasma
- Paying for plasma raises new questions. Health Canada says private clinics may pay donors for plasma, but critics wonder what is behind the push for a major change in policy (25 April 2013)
- Hemophilia Ontario opposed to paid plasma clinics (22 Apr. 2013)
- Health Canada promotes paid plasma | Wow!
- Should federal and provincial regulators allow plasma-for-profit clinics to operate in Canada? (12 April 2013) Irfan Dhalla, internal medicine specialist at St. Michael’s Hospital and assistant professor at the University of Toronto: “If we have to pay donors, I would much rather see Canadian Blood Services providing payment to those donors than for-profit companies.”
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)
- Background document
- Summary
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)
- Sadly, Canada has 2 companies ready to pay donors for plasma (28 Feb. 2013) | Editorial
- CBS statement on 'pay for plasma' (25 Feb. 2013)
- Canadian Plasma Resources (website is lean, information scarce)
- Background (from Aug. 2012 TraQ newsletter): Pic of Toronto bldg. | EXAPharma (Same co.as Canadian Plasma Resources)
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.
- Financial Report
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)
- Background: CBS announces closure of Thunder Bay plasma collection centre (29 Mar. 2012)
  - Reason cited is decreased demand for plasma - See blog: While my guitar gently weeps
- Private Toronto company plans to pay for plasma donations
- Canadian Plasma Resources | Photo of Toronto building
- EXAPharma (Same company as Canadian Plasma Resources)
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)
- Rationales include no mention of CBS decision to close Saint John's blood component production & distribution centre
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
- CBS to close Thunder Bay Plasma Centre (29 Mar. 2012) (2 weeks notice to staff?)
- In the interest of safe blood (10 April 2012)
- Tainted management (Letter to editor, 11 April 2012)
- Claims of CBS deceit in citing reduced demand without mentioning buying plasma from USA (9 Apr. 2012)
- A bloody shame (newspaper editorial) (4 Apr. 2012)
- No one saw this coming (letter to editor) (4 Apr. 2012) | Quote: Their reason for not informing anyone earlier? Coun. Larry Hebert said CBS officials told him “it would be better for staff.”
- Thunder Bay fights to keep plasma centre (3 April 2012)
- Threat of closure always existed (former CBS employee's letter to editor)
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)
- Saint John mayor threatens legal action (25 Jan. 2012)
- CUPE demands blood supply inquiry (16 Jan. 2012)
- NB - CBS controversy timeline
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)
- CBS CEO disagrees, points out negative realities of province creating independent blood system (24 Nov. 2011)
- CEO Sher's open letter to people of NB
- Telegraph-Journal editorial supports NB opting out of CBS (24 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
- Australia: In-flight first for blood (26 April 2011)
'Mother of all cells' identified by Toronto researchers (8 July 2011)
- News report: Stem cell breakthrough (8 July 2011)
- Notta F, Doulatov S, Laurenti E, Poeppl A, Jurisica I, Dick JE. Isolation of single human hematopoietic stem cells capable of long-term multilineage engraftment.Science 2011 Jul 8; 333(6039):218-21.
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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