Adult hepatitis C may have its roots in the routine blood transfusions given to premature or underweight babies in the 1960s. ...
Blood transfusions after cancer surgery may hamper patients' survival prospects, according to research from the Netherlands. ...
Premature babies are at great risk of suffering brain injury, so they are routinely given transfusions as a preventative. But new research has discovered that the procedure is worthless. ...
A further doubt has been raised about blood transfusions following a new study that has found that transfusing red cells can endanger the life of patients.
Do the American health authorities know something we don't about BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), or "mad cow disease"? Just as the British population received the all clear about the safet ...
Blood transfusions that include albumin could be killing six out of 100 patients, new research has revealed. There is no evidence that albumin saves lives, either. ...
About 10 per cent of blood supplies in North America and Europe are autologous, which means they are to be used only by the donor. In these times of AIDS, with fears of infected blood, this statis ...
Those who thought they had escaped infection from blood transfusions by storing their own blood will need to think again. Doctors have discovered that even autologous blood, as it is known, can tr ...