Blood money
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the first successful human-to-human blood transfusion, conducted by James Blundell, an English obstetrician working just across the Thames from The Economist’s
Blood
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India to produce clotting protein for haemophiliacs
India will soon produce and provide the blood clotting proteins F8 and F9 free of cost to patients suffering from the world's oldest known hereditary bleeding disorder
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Thalassemia patients might need fewer blood transfusions
thalassemia patients who undergo expensive treatment to remove extra iron from their system may now take to homoeopathy. Scientists have found a homoeopathic remedy that is inexpensive and without
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Transfusion of stored blood can cause health problems
transfusion of stored blood is unsafe. It not only carries infections, but also invites serious problems such as heart attack. The process of extracting blood from a donor and storing it before
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The rare blood groups
FIVE-YEAR-OLD Arvind Baghel has a hole in his heart and requires urgent surgery. Preparations for the operation have been underway at a hospital in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh
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Protein from buffalo blood has answer to infertility
a protein isolated from buffalo blood induces forward motility of goat sperm, an essential quality that makes fertilisation possible in animals and humans, claims a research team from the Indian
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Runaway carbon dioxide bad news for humans
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ipcc) estimates that the range of stabilised atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration by 2050 will be between 450 parts per million (ppm) and 550 ppm.
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Defective blood test kits in West Bengal
defective blood-testing kits sold to West Bengal government clinics, blood banks and hospitals may have resulted in thousands of people receiving hiv or Hepatitis B- and C-infected blood.
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Cord blood: Affordable cure for malaria related anaemia patients
Cord blood helps malaria related anaemia patients
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Master switch
It has long been known that 20 gene regulators control the development of blood cells from blood stem cells in the bone marrow. All these regulators have a common genetic element, called PU.1, which plays a crucial role in regulating blood cell formation. PU.1 guides the development of two major blood cell lines of the immune system, namely the lymphocytes and the myeloid blood cells.
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If the earthquake wasn t enough
Survivors in Pakistan now risk unsafe blood transfusion