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As demand dwindles, US blood banks make changes

Blood banks are declaring fewer critical shortages these days and in some cases cutting staff in response to dwindling demand for blood - the result of fewer elective surgeries being performed and medical advances that curb bleeding in the operating room.The nation's blood-collection system has undergone a dramatic change from just a decade ago, when agencies that oversee the blood supply worried whether they could keep up with the needs of an aging population.Now blood banks are making fewer but more targeted appeals for donations and reducing the size of their operations.Blood centers shifted "from a collect-as-much-as-you-can mentality to a collect-to-need mentality," said Dr. Darrell Triulzi, medical director for the Institute for Transfusion Medicine in Pittsburgh and a former president of AABB, formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks. "They started collecting only what they needed. That's new to the industry. We're still learning how to do that well."Job cuts ha...

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  1. Sheryl Crow's suspicions about brain tumor not supported by science

    Singer Sheryl Crow has said she believes her benign brain tumor was caused by frequent cellphone use, but the science to date does not support her theory.Crow said t...

  2. Breakthrough in slowing the spread of deadly brain cancer

    The diagnosis of a gioblastoma, one of the most common and deadliest of brain tumors, can be devastating.  While the cancer alone is harmful, its most lethal aspect ...

  3. Sheryl Crow's brain tumor : Can a meningioma be dangerous?

    Singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow announced Wednesday she has a benign brain tumor, though her representative told the public there’s no reason for alarm.Crow, 50, who h...

  4. Professor Survives Baseball-Sized Brain Tumor

    A Minnesota professor got quite the health scare during a routine MRI, which showed that what he had assumed were migraine headaches was actually a brain tumor the s...

  5. New technique 'lights up' brain tumor

    Judy Morrill's husband noticed his wife seemed a little off last spring, but she insisted she felt fine. But, Morrill, of North Royalton, Ohio, would forget to turn ...

  6. Why brain tumors are so hard to destroy

    The most common and aggressive brain tumor grows by turning normal brain cells into stem cells, which can continuously replicate and regrow a tumor with only a handf...

  7. Woman freezes her brain, hopes to be reborn once brain cancer cure found

    It seems like the stuff of science fiction, a dying young woman decides she wants to be frozen after her death until a cure is found for brain cancer.But for the fam...

  8. YouTube star video logs own brain surgery

    YouTube star Charles Trippy video logged his own brain surgery, according to The Jacksonville Observer.Trippy, of Tampa, Fla., holds The Guinness World Record for th...

  9. Trade Voided for Lions' Harrison After Doctors Found Brain Tumor

    Philadelphia Eagles doctors discovered a brain tumor while conducting a physical on running back Jerome Harrison , potentially saving his life, ESPN reported Thursda...

  10. NYPD Mobilizes For Cancer-Stricken Sgt. Facing A $30,000 Medical Bill

    New York police officers are rallying around one of their own who racked up around $30,000 in medical bills after being treated for Stage 3 brain cancer in October.A...

  11. Gene Scan Shows Childhood Brain Cancer Is Different

    A study of the genetic map of brain tumors in children shows they have many fewer mutations than similar tumors in adults -- meaning it may someday be easier to trea...

  12. Study Shows Child Brain Tumor Is Really Two Cancers

    The most common type of malignant childhood brain tumor is actually two different types of cancer, researchers said on Wednesday in a study they said also suggested ...

  1. Cause of Brain Cancer Unclear, but Treatment Is Available

    Understanding brain cancer can feel like an impossible challenge. The causes are unclear, no two diagnoses are the same, and the treatment is intimidating. To help y...

  2. Avastin fails studies in new brain tumor patients

    New research raises fresh questions about which cancer patients benefit from Avastin, a drug that lost its approval for treating breast cancer nearly two years ago.A...

  3. Scientists dispute cellphone study that says use doesn't increase brain tumor risk

    A group of scientists from the Environmental Health Trust (EHT) are refuting a study from last summer, which said cellphones do not lead to an increase of brain canc...

  4. No Link Seen Between Cell Phones, Brain Tumor

    People who have used a cell phone for more than a decade do not appear to be at increased risk of a type of non-cancerous brain tumor, a large study suggests.Looking...

  5. The challenge of brain cancer

    Brain cancer is a growth of abnormal cells in the brain. The National Cancer Institute estimates that brain and other nervous system cancers will account for 13,700 ...

  6. Coffee, Tea Linked to Lower Risk of Brain Tumor

    Coffee and tea lovers may have a decreased likelihood of developing the most common form of malignant brain tumor in adults, a new study suggests.The findings, from ...

  7. Childhood CT scans can triple risk of brain cancer

    Exposing a child to the nuclear radiation from two or three computed tomography (CT) head scans can triple its risk of developing brain cancer later in life, accordi...

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