http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Don_Fatigue/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/Don_Fatigue/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/1DCE751D-5C50-4F2D-BA2A-BF41F047840A/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Don_Fatigue/">Don_Fatigue</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> I´m happy to hear ! <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Scots-doctors-pioneer-trial-to.4071465.jp" title="http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Scots-doctors-pioneer-trial-to.4071465.jp">news.scotsman.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1>Scots doctors pioneer trial to remove 'mad cow' risk from donated blood</H1></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV class="ds-firstpara" id="ds-firstpara">THE world's first trial to make blood transfusions free of the human form of 'mad cow disease' has been launched by doctors in Scotland.<BR /></DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>Scotland on Sunday can reveal that heart patients in Edinburgh who need blood will be offered donations which have been 'cleaned' in a filter to remove the proteins – or prions – which cause variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>The trials are being undertaken by the Scottish Blood Transfusion service using a filter developed by an international medical supplies firm MacoPharma. The device, which works in a similar way to a coffee filter, removes the prions which cause the disease from donated blood.</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>It is believed that at least 1,200 Scots have vCJD, a fatal disease that causes brain damage, but do not yet know it.</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>Tests on the prion filter using animals have so far shown that it prevents the prions being passed on from a blood donor to a recipient.</DIV></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/medical/" rel="tag">medical</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/mad-cow+disease/" rel="tag">mad-cow disease</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/prevention/" rel="tag">prevention</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/trial/" rel="tag">trial</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/blood+donor/" rel="tag">blood donor</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/creutzfeld-jakob/" rel="tag">creutzfeld-jakob</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/filter/" rel="tag">filter</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/prions/" rel="tag">prions</a></div>http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Scots-doctors-pioneer-trial-to.4071465.jpTue, 13 May 2008 00:05:55 GMT