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Transfusion Medicine
Transfusion medicine, or transfusiology, is the branch of medicine that is concerned with transfusion of blood and blood components. It encompasses issues of blood donation, immunohematology and other laboratory testing, transfusion practices, patient blood management, therapeutic apheresis, stem cell collections, cellular therapy, and coagulation. Laboratory management and understanding of state and federal regulations related to blood products are also a large part of the field. Transfusion Medicine is usually a branch of clinical pathology.
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JUL 28, 2018Immunology
The antibody IgM is shown to be provide protection against HIV infection in rhesus monkeys up to 82 days past exposure t ...Written By: Caitlin WilliamsJUL 24, 2018Cancer
A new drug and new drug class have been approved by the FDA for relapsed or refractory AML patients with an IDH1 mutatio ...Written By: Mauri BrueggemanJUL 15, 2018Immunology
The enzyme, PI3Kγ, regulates the immune response to T. cruzi, the cause of Chagas Disease. Manipulation of this enzyme m ...Written By: Caitlin WilliamsJUN 21, 2018Videos
Stem cells were harvested from a mother and successfully transplanted into her growing fetus.Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 11, 2017Genetics & Genomics
There is a genetic disorder affecting the immune system so severely that its patients often require protective isolation ...Written By: Kara MarkerNOV 15, 2017Neuroscience
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is in the headlines almost every week. Currently, estimates from the WHO and the CDC show t ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 06, 2017Microbiology
Toxoplasma gondii is a single-celled parasite that causes toxoplasmosis. The parasite can be found throughout the world ...Written By: Sarah HertrichAUG 20, 2017Immunology
The body can go into “shock” for several different reasons, but it’s never a good sign. Whatever the s ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAY 14, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
A small molecule could be the key to iron transport disorders.Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 26, 2017Clinical & Molecular DX
Lab-grown red blood cells are not a new concept. But culturing enough of these cells in mass quantities was the main cha ...JUN 04, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
A new study report found that at least 2,234 people contracted the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from blood transfu ...MAY 02, 2016Health & Medicine
For people with a certain gene mutation, metabolizing fat can be much harder for the body to do than it would be for a h ...Written By: Kara MarkerAPR 08, 2016Videos
Even before modern medicine, physicians figured out that blood was essential to life and could be given to enhance or cu ...MAR 23, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
After receiving a bone marrow transplant, a 46-year-old man reportedly acquired a new fruit allergy to kiwis. The myster ...MAY 01, 2015Immunology
There are strict rules to blood transfusion. Only blood without A- or B-type antigens, such as type O, can be given to a ...Written By: Robert WoodardAPR 29, 2015Chemistry & Physics
What to do when a patient needs a blood transfusion but you don't have their blood type in the blood bank? It's a proble ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeAPR 23, 2015Health & Medicine
Black-legged deer ticks are rapidly growing in number, expanding their range, and carrying pathogens into places where t ...Written By: Robert WoodardAPR 23, 2015Cardiology
Scientific dogma has the respiration process involving only two elements-oxygen and carbon dioxide. Specifically, the de ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeAPR 10, 2015Immunology
supply is of everyone's utmost concern," but more research is needed to determine how best to avoid the transfer of alle ...Written By: Robert WoodardAPR 02, 2015Genetics & Genomics
As a patient prepares to become the first in history to receive his own genetically engineered stem cells for sickle cel ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 19, 2015Genetics & Genomics
A clinical trial of the most common sickle cell anemia drug, hydroxyurea, was halted a year early this winter because of ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderFEB 26, 2015Cancer
A study published in Science Translational Medicine showed that immune cells engineered to seek out and attack a type of ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderNOV 20, 2014Immunology
More than half of those diagnosed with HCV were infected through blood transfusions or organ transplants pr ...Written By: Judy O'Rourke
JUL 28, 2018
Immunology
The antibody IgM is shown to be provide protection against HIV infection in rhesus monkeys up to 82 days past exposure t
...
Written By:
Caitlin Williams
JUL 24, 2018
Cancer
A new drug and new drug class have been approved by the FDA for relapsed or refractory AML patients with an IDH1 mutatio
...
Written By:
Mauri Brueggeman
JUL 15, 2018
Immunology
The enzyme, PI3Kγ, regulates the immune response to T. cruzi, the cause of Chagas Disease. Manipulation of this enzyme m
...
Written By:
Caitlin Williams
JUN 21, 2018
Videos
Stem cells were harvested from a mother and successfully transplanted into her growing fetus.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 11, 2017
Genetics & Genomics
There is a genetic disorder affecting the immune system so severely that its patients often require protective isolation
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 15, 2017
Neuroscience
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is in the headlines almost every week. Currently, estimates from the WHO and the CDC show t
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 06, 2017
Microbiology
Toxoplasma gondii is a single-celled parasite that causes toxoplasmosis. The parasite can be found throughout the world
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
AUG 20, 2017
Immunology
The body can go into “shock” for several different reasons, but it’s never a good sign. Whatever the s
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 14, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
A small molecule could be the key to iron transport disorders.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 26, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
Lab-grown red blood cells are not a new concept. But culturing enough of these cells in mass quantities was the main cha
...
JUN 04, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
A new study report found that at least 2,234 people contracted the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from blood transfu
...
MAY 02, 2016
Health & Medicine
For people with a certain gene mutation, metabolizing fat can be much harder for the body to do than it would be for a h
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 08, 2016
Videos
Even before modern medicine, physicians figured out that blood was essential to life and could be given to enhance or cu
...
MAR 23, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
After receiving a bone marrow transplant, a 46-year-old man reportedly acquired a new fruit allergy to kiwis. The myster
...
MAY 01, 2015
Immunology
There are strict rules to blood transfusion. Only blood without A- or B-type antigens, such as type O, can be given to a
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
APR 29, 2015
Chemistry & Physics
What to do when a patient needs a blood transfusion but you don't have their blood type in the blood bank? It's a proble
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
APR 23, 2015
Health & Medicine
Black-legged deer ticks are rapidly growing in number, expanding their range, and carrying pathogens into places where t
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
APR 23, 2015
Cardiology
Scientific dogma has the respiration process involving only two elements-oxygen and carbon dioxide. Specifically, the de
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
APR 10, 2015
Immunology
supply is of everyone's utmost concern," but more research is needed to determine how best to avoid the transfer of alle
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
APR 02, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
As a patient prepares to become the first in history to receive his own genetically engineered stem cells for sickle cel
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 19, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
A clinical trial of the most common sickle cell anemia drug, hydroxyurea, was halted a year early this winter because of
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
FEB 26, 2015
Cancer
A study published in Science Translational Medicine showed that immune cells engineered to seek out and attack a type of
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
NOV 20, 2014
Immunology
More than half of those diagnosed with HCV were infected through blood transfusions or organ transplants pr ...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke