- Smartphone 'dongle' that diagnoses 3 diseases from 1 blood drop being field trialed in Rwanda (5 Oct. 2015)
- The Storm abroad. Anesthesiology during wartime (by Lt. Cmdr. Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy)
- Part 1: Preparing for battle: anesthesia training for combat missions.Anesthesiology News 2015 May; Vol. 41(5).
- Part 11:Giving blood on the battlefield. Anesthesiology News 2015 Oct; Vol. 41(10).
- Sequencing study detects new virus -human hepegivirus 1- in blood transfusion recipients (22 Sept. 2015)
- Meetings:
- Canada: 2018 ISBT World Congress awarded to Toronto [Well done, CSTM! Last Canada-hosted ISBT World Congress was Vancouver 2002]
- AABB Annual Meeting (Oct. 24-27, 2015, Anaheim, CA)
- ASH Annual Meeting (Dec. 5-8, 2015, Orlando, FL)
- Also see Kapoor, et al. under Journals below
- Commodifying blood donation (paying for it) could solve Canada's shortfall (Opinion piece, Oct. 8, 2015)
- Babesia testing on blood donors not warranted (16 Oct. 2015)
- O'Brien SF, Delage G, Scalia V, Lindsay R, Bernier F, Dubuc S, et al. Seroprevalence of Babesia microti infection in Canadian blood donors. Transfusion. 2015 Oct 1. [Epub ahead of print]
- Vancouver Aquarium performs historic nephrectomy and transfusion on sea otter (6 Oct. 2015)
- Canadian Blood Services employees on strike in PEI (14 Sept. 2015)
- Background: Without sufficient hours, no benefits (8 Sept. 2015)
- Also see Diseases (WNV) below
- See Chagas disease below
- Govt allows transfer of blood between blood banks and fixs exchange price of surplus plasma at Rs. 1,600/litre, but not in cash (19 Oct. 2015) | 1600 INR ~$25 USD/$32 CDN
- Former soldier relates his experience with contacting hepatitis C from blood transfusion in first Gulf War (4 Oct. 2015)
- Paid plasma news
- The Dark Report explains details of perhaps biggest case of Medicare fraud and abuse in history of clinical laboratory business (12 Oct. 2015)
- Lab soaked government for more than $1b in fraudulent claims with collusion of physicians who accepted bribes and inducements
- New developments in $1 billion lab fraud case (14 Sept. 2015)
- The rising risk of a contaminated blood supply (27 Sept. 2015)
- Meetings:
- AABB Annual Meeting (Oct. 24-27, 2015, Anaheim, CA)
- ASH Annual Meeting (Dec. 5-8, 2015, Orlando, FL)
- Blood product expense, lack of storage facilities, and errratic electricity hampers blood stocks (15 Oct. 2015)
- Theranos' CEO Elizabeth Holmes needs to stop complaining and answer questions (15 Oct. 2015)
- Holmes claims that established US mega-labs like Quest and Laboratory Corporation of America seed the media with negative stories about Theranos
- Internationally-respected experts in clinical pathology and laboratory medicine ask, Why don’t we know more about Theranos’ technology? (21 Sept. 2015)
- Vietnamese-American pharma billionaire debuts on Forbes 400 (29 Sept. 2015)
- Babesiosis: See Canada above
- Chagas disease: Blumental S, Lambermont M, Heijmans C, Rodenbach MP, El Kenz H, Sondag D, et al. First documented transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi infection through blood transfusion in a child with sickle-cell disease in Belgium. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2015 Oct 15;9(10):e0003986. eCollection 2015. (Full free text)
- Implicated donor was born in Brazil and moved to Belgium 7 years earlier. The authors note that Chagas infection has to be considered, even in European countries that host a small population of immigrants from Latin America.
- HIV: See Raimondo, et al., in Journals below
- WNV
- Canada (BC Ministry of Health): West Nile Virus Update #2015-3 (26 August 2015)
- Blumental S, Lambermont M, Heijmans C, Rodenbach MP, El Kenz H, Sondag D, et al. First documented transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi infection through blood transfusion in a child with sickle-cell disease in Belgium. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2015 Oct 15;9(10):e0003986. eCollection 2015.
- Denomme GA. Kell and Kx blood group systems. Immunohematology. 2015;31(1):14-9.
- Kapoor A, Kumar A, Simmonds P, Bhuva N, Singh Chauhan L, Lee B, et al. Virome analysis of transfusion recipients reveals a novel human virus that shares genomic features with hepaciviruses and pegiviruses. MBio. 2015 Sep 22;6(5). pii: e01466-15.
- O'Brien SF, Delage G, Scalia V, Lindsay R, Bernier F, Dubuc S, et al. Seroprevalence of Babesia microti infection in Canadian blood donors. Transfusion. 2015 Oct 1. [Epub ahead of print]
- Raimondo M, Facco G, Regine V, Pupella S, Grazzini G, Suligoi B. HIV-positive blood donors unaware of their sexual at-risk behaviours before donation in Italy. Vox Sang. 2015 Sep 28. [Epub ahead of print]
- Tinegate H, Pendry K, Murphy M, Babra P, Grant-Casey J, Hopkinson C,et al. Where do all the red blood cells (RBCs) go? Results of a survey of RBC use in England and North Wales in 2014. Transfusion. 2015 Oct 7. [Epub ahead of print]
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