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• Study Links Breastfeeding, Other Protective Measures to Prevention of NEC in Preterm Infants

  March 22, 2024

  Irvin Jackson

  A new study finds several factors that can protect infants from NEC, while finding many more which increase the risk of the potentially deadly condition.

• Study Will Test Method of Lowering Toxic Firefighter Foam Blood Levels Through Transfusions

  January 23, 2023

  Russell Maas

  A new study hopes to prove that high PFAS levels in firefighters' blood, caused by firefighting foam exposure, could be reduce through blood donations.

• FDA Launches Investigation Into Potentially Toxic Nanoparticles Used In Blood Products

  March 7, 2022

  Martha Garcia

  The FDA has launched a new research program to investigate the potential health side effects of nanoparticles used in blood products.

• Safety Failures At MD Anderson Led To Fatal “Never Event” Blood Transfusion Infection

  July 1, 2019

  Irvin Jackson

  A report by federal investigators reveals a number of safety problems at a leading cancer hospital which resulted in the death of a patient through circumstances that should have never happened.