Category: Blood / Hematology

Gambro BCT, Inc., soon to be known as CaridianBCT, a leading global provider of technology, products and services in automated blood collections, therapeutic systems, whole blood processes and pathogen reduction technologies, announced that it received FDA clearance for the commercial sale of Atreus® Whole Blood Processing system in the United States. The Atreus system is […]

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that the administration of minute amounts of inhaled or intravenous hydrogen sulfide, or H2S - the molecule that gives rotten eggs their sulfurous stench - significantly improves survival from extreme blood loss in rats. Cell biologist Mark B. Roth, Ph.D., and colleagues in the Basic […]

Eisai Corporation of North America announced the preliminary efficacy data from a trial initiated in 2002 comparing Dacogen(R) (decitabine) to Best Supportive Care (BSC) in elderly patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). The data did not demonstrate a statistically significant advantage of Dacogen treatment on […]

The Fourth of July weekend is coming and the American Red Cross urges everyone to make giving blood part of their holiday plans. The number of people giving blood is down, but the need still exists. On any given day, an average of 39,000 units of red blood cells are needed for […]

Results from a pre-specified pooled analysis of three Phase III studies, RECORD1, 2 and 3, were presented at the 20th International Congress on Thrombosis (ICT) in Athens. The investigational anticoagulant rivaroxaban (Xarelto®), taken as one tablet once daily, has shown to be significantly more effective than enoxaparin at reducing the composite of symptomatic VTE and […]

AspenBio Pharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: APPY) an emerging bio-pharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of novel drugs and diagnostics for humans and animals, has officially initiated a clinical trial to support the FDA 510(k) application for the AppyScore™ Human Appendicitis blood-based diagnostic test. Enrollment of the first patients in the independent, blind, multicenter study […]

BIN those tarot cards and cancel the visit to the palm reader. It might one day be possible to predict how long you’ll live from a sample of your white blood cells. It is well known that the children of long-lived parents tend to be long-lived too, but no one knows […]

A study published in the open-access journal PLoS ComputationalBiology demonstrates how sophisticated mathematical modelinghas encouraged the development of an optimally-timed vaccine forchronic myelogenousleukemia (CML). Researchers Doron Levy (University of Maryland), Peter P. Lee (StanfordUniversity), and Peter S.

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The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has recommended updating the product information for epoetin-containing medicines with a new warning for their use in cancer patients stating that blood transfusion should be the preferred method of correcting anaemia in patients suffering cancer. Epoetin-containing medicines are indicated in patients with chronic renal failure and for the treatment of […]

Instrumentation Laboratory (IL) announced that it has received FDA clearance 510(k) for the ACL TOP software V3.0.0. This clearance allows IL to market the ACL TOP 500 CTS Hemostasis Testing System in the United States as a member of the ACL TOP Family of analyzers.

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