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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Blood

Blood current awareness bulletin

Frequency: Bi-monthly

Links to articles in the current and previous 2 issues of this bulletin are displayed below.

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July 2025

Advances in RNA editing in hematopoiesis and associated malignancies

Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for acute myeloid leukemia in adults over 70 years old

Approaching a therapeutic inflection point for FLT3-mutated AML

Artificial intelligence in haematopathology: current perspective and future directions

Blood under pressure: how climate change threatens blood safety and supply chains

Chronic myeloid leukemia: a review (JAMA)

Clinical-genomic profiling of MDS to inform allo-HCT: recommendations from an international panel on behalf of the EBMT

Clonal hematopoiesis landscape in frequent blood donors

Considerations on the dose and schedule of tyrosine kinase inhibitors for chronic myeloid leukemia: does dose matter?

Debating race and the diagnosis of anemia — how medicine moved away from race-based standards

Decoding functional hematopoietic progenitor cells in the adult human lung

EMZL at various sites: learning from each other

Endothelial dysfunction in patients with type 2 diabetes: the truth is in the blood

The fit older adult with acute myeloid leukemia: clinical challenges to providing evidence-based frontline treatment

How I approach pharmacological thromboprophylaxis in children

How I diagnose and treat cardiorespiratory complications of transfusion

How I manage major hemorrhage

How I manage pregnant patients who are alloimmunized to RBC antigens

How I treat AML relapse after allogeneic HSCT

How I treat challenging transfusion cases in sickle cell disease

How I treat higher-risk MDS

How I treat patients who are refractory to platelet transfusions

How I use noninvasive prenatal testing for red blood cell and platelet antigens

Identification of hepatic-like EPO as a cause of polycythemia

Immunoactinopathies revisited: understanding clinical manifestations and biological pathway

Iron deficiency in adults: a review (JAMA)

Ph-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia — 25 years of progress

Precision medicine for high-risk gene fusions in pediatric AML: a focus on KMT2A, NUP98, and GLIS2 rearrangements

Sustained clinical benefit of AAV gene therapy in severe hemophilia B

TP53-mutated acute myeloid leukemia: how can we improve outcomes?

Vaccines for preventing infections in adults with haematological malignancies (new Cochrane intervention review)

Sources

Blood (1st May-12th June); Cochrane Library (May-Jun); Diagnostic Histopathology (May); JAMA (May); Journal of Clinical Investigation, The (May); Lancet Planetary Health, The (Apr); NEJM (Apr-Jun)

May 2025

Blinatumomab with chemotherapy for consolidation treatment of Philadelphia-chromosome-negative CD19-positive minimal residual disease-negative B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (new NICE guideline TA1049)

Classification and risk stratification in T-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia

The contribution of the monocyte-macrophage lineage to immunotherapy outcomes

Don't break the (blood) bank: can waste be minimized in a whole blood program?

Essential thrombocythemia: a review

The evolution of treatment-free remission

FDA-approved therapies for chronic GVHD

Genetic subtypes of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in adults

Haemophilia (Lancet seminar)

Honing CAR T cells to tackle acute myeloid leukemia

How I diagnose and treat acute infection–associated purpura fulminans

How I manage patients with unexplained cytopenia

How I treat acute myeloid leukemia with differentiation therapy

How I treat patients with AML using azacitidine and venetoclax

How I treat quantitative fibrinogen disorders

How I treat secondary acute myeloid leukemia

How I use maintenance therapy in acute myeloid leukemia

Illustrated capsules from the Advanced Course in Platelet Research

Impact of new medications on the treatment of immune TTP

Incorporation of immunotherapy into frontline treatment for adults with B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Long-term outcomes of tyrosine kinase inhibitors in chronic myeloid leukemia

Novel mechanisms of resistance in CLL: variant BTK mutations in second-generation and noncovalent BTK inhibitors

Novel treatment strategies for chronic myeloid leukemia

The present and future of CAR T-cell therapy for adult B-cell ALL

Red blood cell transfusion management for people undergoing cardiac surgery for congenital heart disease (new Cochrane intervention review)

The United Kingdom Infected Blood Inquiry: its findings and lessons for the future of transfusion

Sources

American Journal of Surgery (Feb); Blood (20th Feb - 10th Apr); Cochrane Library (Mar-Apr); JAMA (Feb); Lancet, The (Mar); NICE website (Mar); Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis (Feb)

March 2025

Acute promyelocytic leukemia: long-term outcomes from the HARMONY project

Andexanet alfa for reversing anticoagulation from apixaban or rivaroxaban (updated NICE guideline TA697)

β-Thalassemia minor is associated with high rates of worsening anemia in pregnancy

Building the future management of follicular lymphoma with T-cell–redirecting strategies

Cost-effectiveness of iptacopan for paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria

The current landscape of frontline large B-cell lymphoma trials

Current myeloproliferative neoplasm scoring systems for clinical practice

Frontline management of mantle cell lymphoma

Genetic and clinical spectrum of SAMD9 and SAMD9L syndromes: from variant interpretation to patient management

Genetic iron overload aggravates, and pharmacological iron restriction improves, MDS pathophysiology in a preclinical study

High-risk MCL: recognition and treatment

How I treat/manage:

Management of iron overload: lessons from transfusion-dependent hemoglobinopathies

Menin inhibitors in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia

Palliative care in hematology: a systematic review of the components, effectiveness, and implementation

Prothrombotic antibodies targeting the spike protein's receptor-binding domain in severe COVID-19

Transfusion of blood and blood products for the management of postpartum haemorrhage (new Cochrane intervention review)

Treatment of relapsed/refractory MCL

Unraveling MCL biology to understand resistance and identify vulnerabilities

Vadadustat for treating symptomatic anaemia in adults having dialysis for chronic kidney disease (new NICE guideline TA1035

Sources

Blood (Jan-13th Feb); Cochrane Library (Feb); Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (Jan); NICE website (Jan-Feb)

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