December 11, 2023 Clinical Research The First Crispr Medicine Is Now Approved in the US to Treat Sickle Cell Anemia
October 5, 2022 Hematology Scientists find five new versions of blood antigens. Several linked to severe hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn.
February 7, 2022 Cancer/Oncology Case studies reported in Nature of decade-long leukaemia remissions after CAR T treatment. #GoScience
November 16, 2021 Health Policy Canadian Blood Services will base donation eligibility on the scientific evidence of high-risk sexual behaviour and no longer use sexual orientation or gender as part of their screening criteria. This treats people equally and without judgment and is long overdue.
March 12, 2021 Epidemiology Does Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine increase risk of blood clots? To conclude this would require evidence that incidence exceeds what is normally expected in the general population. To date, this is not the case according to reports from health authorities.
June 19, 2020 Allergy/Immunology Way too early to conclude that blood type plays a role in COVID-19 outcomes for people with severe respiratory failure
December 17, 2019 Cancer/Oncology Ontario Ministry of Health rejects family’s application for Phase 1 trial of donor-derived Car T-cell treatment in the U.S. for their 17-year-old son.
May 10, 2019 Alternative Medicine Judge overrides parents wishes to use cannabis, vitamins, and diet treatments and orders that three-year-old boy continue his chemo treatments for lymphoblastic leukemia. Rate of success from chemo is over 90 per cent with 98 per cent remission in first few weeks of treatment
January 18, 2019 Alternative Medicine Transfusing “young blood” into your body will not magically make your organs younger and/or more functional.