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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Metal miracles
Two and a half-year-old Avsar Khan was diagnosed for acute megakayo blastic leukemia (a rare form of blood cancer) at the Aga Khan hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan, in 1987. He was then referred
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FIGHTING MEASURES
The AIDS management programme in Bangladesh should have a four-pronged methodology, according to the UN body on AIDS (UNAIDS). With the situation becoming more alarming, UNAIDS has suggested that a
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Placental help
Blood stem cells from the placenta could be a major help in treating leukaemic kids
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CHINA
After Japan and the us , it is the turn of China. Months of secrecy later, Chinese health officials have confirmed that a certain brand of a common blood product called serum albumin, produced
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MUTUAL AGREEMENT
US haemophiliacs who contracted the AIDS virus from contaminated blood-clotting products have decided to accept a tentative US $650 million class action settlement of the lawsuit brought against the
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Relationship of hemoglobin to occupational exposure to motor vehicle exhaust
<p><em>The objective of the study is to study the relationship of hemoglobin to exposure to motor vehicle exhaust.</em></p> <p><em>http://tih.sagepub.com/content/12/5/629.abstract</em></p>
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DELAYED JUSTICE
William Snyder went through an open-heart surgery at St Joseph's Hospital in Paterson, US, in August 1984, and came out HIV -positive due to a pint of tainted blood that he received during the
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Bloody revelation
HAEMOGLOBIN, the blood's red pigment which was until now thought to transport only oxygen to and bring out carbon dioxide from the body's tissues, has now been credited with yet another major
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JAPAN
Horrifying details about the health ministry's negligence and connivance in spreading the Hiv among nearly 2,000 haemophiliacs in the country, have come to light after more than a decade.
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GORY ISSUE
With a view to prevent various infections transmitted through blood, the Supreme Court of India, in a ruling on January 4 directed the Union government "to establish forthwith a National