Word: fluosol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fluosol, the product of a Japanese pharmaceutical Company. Green Cross is a blood subsitute. Forecasters predict that Fluosol, will capture $1.2 billion of the worker for the blood I've usually artificial blood might be used in up to 10 percent of the world's blood transfusions. While the American drug industry has began the development of its own blood substitute it will be years before a product emerges...
...Geyer should not be criticized for aiding Green Cross in its development of artificial blood. As a member of the medical profession. Dr. Geyer is committed to promoting the advancement of life-saving technology, and artificial blood will save lives. Fluosol molecules are smaller than those of blood and could more easily penetrate clots in heart attack victims. For members of religions preventing blood transfusions such as Jehovah's Witnesses, a loss of blood may no longer signal death as Fluosol is not really blood...
...hypodermic needle. At the very least it will prevent many deaths. In this case the means truly are justified by the end. Flusol is better in foreign hands than nowhere at all. Yet, there is no reason why an American label could not have been placed on each Fluosol container...
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