What Doctors Don't Tell YouDo 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 ...
Hospitals should restrict their use of blood transfusions with critically ill patients as this will probably increase their chances of surviving. ...
The UK has published guidelines on the use of autologous blood transfusions where patients are given back their own blood, which they earlier donated in advance of a planned operation (BMJ, 11 De ...
In WDDTY vol 5 no 4, , we reported that a third of people in Britain are given the wrong blood for transfusion. ...
Doctors have found a way of taking more blood from a patient awaiting surgery so that a donor's blood need not be given. The autologous transfusion (the receiving of your own blood) has become mor ...
