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New "platelet gel" pushes the boundaries of healing

  • Platelet gel
  • October 10, 2011
The word "surgery" can strike fear into the heart of even the most hardened individuals. The very idea of it arouses images of beeping...
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Sport Purple for Platelets Day September 30

September is ITP Awareness Month & Sept. 30th is Sport Purple for Platelets Day!Use your purple power to raise awareness for ITP!ITP, immune...
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Red Cross Blood Center in Wichita needs your blood, platelets donation

It is a bit of irony that just prior to the weekend of one of the greatest tragedies in American history, when we were remembering the events of 9...
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Stem cells control Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome

Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome (WAS) is an X-linked (sex-linked) recessive immunodefeciency disorder, where those afflicted have lower levels of immunity...
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Chocolate and CHF

Chocolate contains large amounts of flavonol, a substance that improves vascular function. Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) manifests impaired...
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