Since the inception of blood banking, refinements in laboratory processes have allowed for progressively longer storage times of red blood cells (RBCs). Whilst advantageous for the logistics of stock management, the clinical impact of the duration of RBC storage prior to transfusion remains uncertain, and a topic of growing interest. In this issue, Ranucci and colleagues1 report an adverse outcome in infants receiving "older" blood during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB).The current standard RBC sto

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33 new pubmed citations were retrieved for your search. Click on the search hyperlink below to display the complete search results: diabetes AND ("last 30 days"[PDat] AND (jsubsetaim[text]) ) These pubmed results were generated on 2010/02/25PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full

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The alert (NPSA/2010/RRR008) issued on t...

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Consuming a diet that is low in carbohydrate could be more effective at reducing blood pressure than weight loss pills.

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The US lifts a 22-year immigration ban that stopped anyone with HIV/Aids from entering the country.

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Research published today examining consu...

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Norwegian health authorities said on Friday they have discovered a potentially significant mutation in the H1N1 influenza strain that could be responsible for causing the severest symptoms among those infected. Reuters Health Information

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Urgent change is needed to reform the House of Commons, an influential committee of MPs concluded today.

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The Iraq inquiry begins its much-awaited public hearings today, as Britain seeks to learn the lessons from its involvement in the US-led 2003 effort to oust Saddam Hussein.

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AES Annual Meeting, Booth #901-- Cyberonics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CYBX) announced that Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) Therapy, the only FDA-approved implantable medical device for the treatment of refractory epilepsy, will be featured in 14 presentations at the American Epilepsy Society's (AES) Annual Meeting, taking place December 4-8 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts...

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An older person's usual walking speed is "strongly associated with mortality," Dr. Kate Machacova of Wayne State University in Detroit reported Friday at the Gerontological Society of America's annual meeting in Atlanta. Reuters Health Information

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A 12-year study in middle-aged adults suggests that knee pain is frequently the first sign of knee osteoarthritis. Reuters Health Information

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Viral infection precedes an unexpectedly large proportion of childhood pneumonia cases.

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The article explains in detail about dia...

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"Why doesn't she age?" Howard Greenberg,...

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H1N1 pandemic flu is spreading in India, Thailand and Vietnam with the onset of Asia's monsoon season, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. Reuters Health Information

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced an update to a previous safety alert on four botulinum toxin drug products, noting that all of them now have boxed warnings on their labels and have developed Medication Guides for patients, as directed by the agency in April 2009. The boxed warning cautions that the effects of the botulinum toxin may spread from the area of injection to other areas of the body, causing symptoms similar to those of botulism.

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Andrew Dillon Chief Executive of NICE comments on recent US reports about NICE

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Monthly injections of golimumab, either alone or with methotrexate (MTX), may reduce the signs and symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in MTX-naive patients, the results of an ongoing phase III trial suggest. Reuters Health Information

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Tony Huesman, who survived with a single transplanted heart longer than any other transplant patient, died Aug. 9 at his home in Washington Township, Ohio. Huesman received his heart in August 1978 at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, one of the early beneficiaries of the hospital's heart transplant program. He died of complications from cancer, said his wife, Carol Huesman. He was 51. "His heart held up to the end," she said.

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This case series describes the first 18 patients hospitalized with infection with novel swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus (S-OIV) from March 24 through April 24, 2009, in Mexico City. More than half the patients were between 13 and 47 years of age, and most had been healthy previously. Respiratory distress requiring intubation and mechanical ventilation developed in 10 patients; 7 patients died. There were 22 secondary infections among health care workers, none of which required hospitalizat

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Unattributed authors remain an issue for journals.

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I've tried, but I don't seem to have it. Much as I'd like to return to the sort of writing I was doing earlier in Surgeonsblog, it's not happening. It's as if I'm in a darkened house with many rooms, but all the doors are locked. In a deja vu sort of way, I know there is stuff behind the doors, but it's inaccessible. Familiar, yet out of reach.Re-reading old posts, I feel envious of the person who was able to write them, and of the good I feel it did, not to mention the wider world it created fo

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Two London teaching hospitals have been chosen to try out new air cleansing technologies designed to combat infections.

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How the health service is the focus of US debate

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