Such transfusions, which can improve performance in endurance competitions, are banned by antidoping rules.

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Oncologists were convinced that super doses of chemo followed by transfusions of bone marrow could help breast cancer patients.

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But he said the aim of the transfusions was to protect athletes' health and improve their performance during training.

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Terumo has developed a range of portable peritoneal dialysis machines and home infusion-therapy equipment which allows patients to have transfusions without supervision.

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Can we not agree that the vampire theme is dramatically defunct, and that, whatever transfusions of parody or savagery it may receive, it will not be resurrected for many years?

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Transfusions allow me to have an easier, pain-free life.

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Many patients must subsist on transfusions.

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