Gary M. Brittenham

TL;DR: This study is the first to analyse sequential patient-specific distributions of laboratory measurements, utilizing mixture distribution modelling with systematic selection of starting values for the EM algorithm, and promise to provide more sensitive techniques for improved diagnostic evaluation of developing anaemia and serial monitoring of response to therapy.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that current criteria for blood donation preserve red cell transfusion quality for the recipient and protect adult donors from measurable effects of blood donation-induced iron deficiency on cognition.

TL;DR: In these studies, it is demonstrated that failure to consider the effect of foetal lead exposure with the effects of maternal use of alcohol and cigarettes during pregnancy can lead to discrepant findings in the association of lead exposure and the gestational age, birth weight, length and head circumference of the neonate.

TL;DR: In patients with thalassemia major and transfusional iron overload, chemical measurement of the iron concentration in a desiccated liver-biopsy specimen obtained by percutaneous biopsy is highly reproducible, as judged by measurement in a successive specimen, provided that two conditions are met.