What's New - Chronological (September 2018)

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13 September

• USA: 'I work 3 jobs and donate blood plasma to pay the bills.' This Is what it’s like to be a teacher in America (13 Sept. 2018)
• Bastos JMC, Pinheiro PL, Rocha LC, Bicalho EC, Cazeli AB, Marcondes SS, Pinasco GC. Therapeutic challenges in pregnant women with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria: A case report. Medicine (Baltimore). 2018 Sep;97(36):e12155.
• Heyes J, Kelly PA, Monaghan K, Lawn M, Dhesi A, Mijovic A. A single unit transfusion policy reduces red cell transfusions in general medical in-patients. QJM. 2017 Nov 1;110(11):735-9.
• Ifland L, Bloch EM, Pitman JP. Funding blood safety in the 21st century. Transfusion. 2018 Jan;58(1):105-12.Epub 2017 Oct 13.
• Zeller MP, et al, Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) Collaborative. An international investigation into AB plasma administration in hospitals: how many AB plasma units were infused? The HABSWIN study. Transfusion. 2018 Jan;58(1):151-7. Epub 2017 Oct 14.

10 September

• Leading geneticists say research shows transfusions of young blood could stave off illness in older patients (8 Sept. 2018)
  • Partridge L, Deelen J3, Slagboom PE. Facing up to the global challenges of ageing. Nature. 2018 Sep;561(7721):45-56. Epub 2018 Sep 5.
  • Flatt T, Partridge L. Horizons in the evolution of aging. BMC Biol. 2018 Aug 20;16(1):93. (Free full text)
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• USA: Trends and disparities in delivery hospitalizations involving severe maternal morbidity, 2006-2015. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2018 Sept.
  • Blood transfusions for women during childbirth rose 54% from 2006 to 2015;severe complications during delivery increased 45%.

7 September

• USA: NY Blood Center hosts 95 blood drives to commemorate Sept. 11, 2001 attacks (6 Sept. 2018)
• Case Review: A man with fever and haemoglobinuria after blood transfusion. BMJ 2018; 362 (Epub 6 Sept. 2018)

5 September

• Theranos: Scandal hit blood-testing firm to shut (5 Sept. 2018)

4 September

• Australia: How to fix the market for plasma and save millions: pay plasma donors (2 Sept. 2018)

1 September

• Canada: BC PBCO/CBS Education Session on Blood Transfusion Issues (25 Oct. 2018, Sydney, BC)
• Australia: Judge says hospital can give pregnant Jehovah's Witness teenager a blood transfusion (31 Aug. 2018)
• Malta: When NAT introduced gay men will be allowed to donate. (29 Aug. 2018) | Unclear which criteria will apply
• Pakistan: 88% blood deposits in Islamabad come from family, friends, says IBTA report (28 Aug. 2018) | 2017 donors: 67,081 (98.4%) men; 1,066 (1.6%) women
• UK (Scotland) 200 years since first successful human-to-human transfusion, SNBTS is in rude health (28 Aug. 2018)