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Abstract 185 Audio and video interviews available at ISC 2011 Multimedia Study Highlights: - Symptomless strokes occur in about 20 percent of children with sickle cell disease when their red blood cell levels severely drop. These silent strokes also occur in about 7 percent of hospitalized children without sickle cell who have severe drops in hemoglobin. - Acute anemic events could help account for the high prevalence of silent strokes in children with sickle cell disease. LOS ANGELES,...

LAKE ZURICH, Ill., Jan. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Fenwal, Inc., a global medical technology company focused on improving blood collection, separation, safety and availability, announced today the names of 16 inspiring individuals inducted into the company's 2010 Donation Hall of Fame. For more than a decade, Fenwal has partnered with blood centers to recognize people who can serve as an inspiration to others in assuring medicine's most vital natural resource -- blood -- is available for...

Researchers take a systematic approach to catalog factors that control blood cell developmentA small pool of stem cells replenishes the human body with about 200 billion new blood cells daily. But the elaborate circuitry that determines if a cell will develop into a T cell, red blood cell, or one of the nine or more other blood cell types remains largely unknown. A research team led by scientists from the Broad Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital has taken a systematic approach to help...

IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI) announced today that a new clinical study demonstrating the clinical accuracy of its noninvasive and continuous hemoglobin (SpHb®) monitoring technology breakthrough was presented last week at the Society for Technology in Anesthesia (STA) Annual Meeting. The study, presented by the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, evaluated the accuracy of Masimo SpHb--a noninvasive measurement of hemoglobin blood levels obtained using...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered a way to create red blood cell-mimicking particles, which are possible building blocks in the creation of synthetic blood. Leverage of these particles can potentially aid doctors in treating deadly diseases like cancer.The researchers created the extremely soft, hydrogel particles using PRINT (Particle Replication in Non-wetting Templates) technology. This technology allowed them to create...

A team of scientists has created particles that closely mirror some of the key properties of red blood cells, potentially helping pave the way for the development of synthetic blood.The new discovery "“ outlined in a study appearing in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences during the week of Jan. 10, 2011 "“ also could lead to more effective treatments for life threatening medical conditions such as cancer.University of North Carolina at Chapel...

Patients with diabetes, kidney disease and anemia who don't respond to treatment with an anti-anemia drug have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease or death, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.The results suggest that testing such patients' responsiveness to the drug and keeping blood iron levels a little low might reduce their risk, said Dr. Robert Toto, professor of internal medicine and clinical sciences and a senior author of the study, which appeared in the New...

Although the incidence of malaria has declined in all but a few countries worldwide, according to a World Health Organization report earlier this month, malaria remains a global threat. Nearly 800,000 people succumbed to the mosquito-borne disease in 2009, nearly all of them in the developing world.Physicians do not have reliable treatment for the virus at various stages, largely because no one has been able to document the malaria parasite's journeys in the body.Now researchers at Brown...

LAKE ZURICH, Ill., Dec. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Fenwal, Inc., a global medical technology company focused on improving blood collection, separation, safety and availability, announced today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted Fenwal 510(k) clearance to market its ALYX(TM) component collection system with new wireless data export capabilities. The ALYX system is a mobile blood component collection device used primarily to collect red blood cells. The system can collect two...

Staphylococcus aureus bacteria bind best to human hemoglobin"Staph" bacteria feed on blood. They need the iron that's hidden away inside red blood cells to grow and cause infections. It turns out that these microbial vampires prefer the taste of human blood, Vanderbilt University scientists have discovered.The researchers report in the Dec. 16 issue of Cell Host & Microbe that Staphylococcus aureus (staph) favors human hemoglobin "“ the oxygen-carrying protein that contains...