Description: Although approximately 85 million units of red blood cells (RBCs) are transfused
annually worldwide, transfusion practices vary widely. The AABB (formerly, the American …

Utility assessment is a formal method for quantifying and understanding the relative impact of
a given health state or disease on patients. In this article, methodology of utility assessment …

… Katz: The clinical feasibility studies needed to find a simple, practical way of reducing brain
temperature to 34 degrees C within 15 mins, is a challenge (A2). Our group [39] found in …

Objective. Trials of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatments report the average response in
multiple outcome measures for treated patients. It is more clinically relevant to test whether …

Importance More than 100 million units of blood are collected worldwide each year, yet the
indication for red blood cell (RBC) transfusion and the optimal length of RBC storage prior to …

BACKGROUND: Emerging infections have been identified as a continuing threat to human
health. Many such infections are known to be transmissible by blood transfusion, while others …

The effects of ablating the visual pathway that passes through the parvocellular (dorsal)
LGN were tested in 2 macaque monkeys by measuring acuity and both luminance and …

Background: Resource utilisation and direct costs associated with glaucoma progression in
Europe are unknown. As population progressively ages, the economic impact of the disease …

… LM Katz was responsible for data linkage, conducted initial analyses, and contributed to
the Methods and Results sections. JR Carpenter assisted with data collection and the …

Variants of the MSTN gene encoding myostatin are associated with muscle hypertrophy
phenotypes in a range of mammalian species, most notably cattle, dogs, mice, and humans. …