Northwestern surgeon invents teaching technology for scary patient exams
... ... How do medical students know if they are being gentle enough? How can they f...Canadian Blood Services scientist invents potential alternative for high-demand blood product
Toronto, ON Patients suffering from a life-threatening bleeding disorder are closer to having access to a more effective treatment. Alan Lazarus, Canadian Blood Services scientist and adjunct scientist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, is deciphering how a blood-derived product called IVIg (intravenous immunoglobulin) currently works, and as a result has developed a synthetic replacement prod...UBC/CBS researcher invents device to boost world supply, quality of blood platelets
Cancer and open-heart surgery patients, disaster victims, organ or bone marrow transplant recipients, and others who require life-saving blood platelet transfusions will benefit from equipment invented by a researcher at the University of British Columbia's Centre for Blood Research (CBR). The device has the potential to minimize the loss of donated platelets and effectively increase platelet sup...