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...donor made it clear that he had this hope of a better Brazil on the public service side, and that one way to advance his own objective was to make it possible for Harvard to advance that goal,” Dominguez said...
...While donor blood alone may not be directly responsible for this added risk, those percentages had already been disturbing enough to persuade physicians to change what is known as their transfusion trigger. As a rule, they introduced donated blood as soon as the patient's hematocrit--a measure of the proportion of the blood made up of oxygen-carrying red cells--fell below the normal range of 45%-55%. Lately, however, they have begun waiting until it drops to less than 30% before transfusing...
...their part, Stamler, who consults for a company developing NO-based therapies, and McMahon, whose work was funded in part by another such firm, are thinking about using transfusions of NO-fortified donor blood to treat such ills as heart disease, stroke and diabetes. "We want to open up blood vessels, and blood knows how to do that," he says. Perhaps a nitric oxide boost would help it do its job even better...
...alma mater, along with cultural institutions like museums, symphonies, or operas. It’s not hard to see why—in addition to altruistic motives, the rich reap benefits from giving to these types of organizations. For instance, the benefits of being a major donor to a university run the gamut from increasing the admissions odds of one’s grandchildren to getting a building named after oneself. An increasing number of pundits, however, believe that universities are not fully deserving of such donations, especially since these donations are tax deductible. For instance...
...should benefit immediately from a transfusion of new oxygen-laden red blood cells. Yet many get sicker. Puzzled by the paradox, Stamler and his colleagues decided to look more closely at banked blood - to figure out whether it underwent certain changes that turned it from life-saving in the donor to potentially deadly...