Medicine: Blood for All

Only last month, in a comic strip, when Daddy Warbucks had to have a blood transfusion, Little Orphan Annie had a frantic time finding a donor with the right blood type. But that desperate, urgent situation, fairly common in modern medicine, may soon be out of date.

Such far-from-comic searches may soon be ended by a new method of blood transfusion that makes possible the use of one type of blood for all cases. The "revolutionary" new process was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association last fortnight by Drs. Ernest Witebsky...

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