11.   There will be no tests to detect substances like human-growth hormone, insulin-growth factor and products that work essentially as artificial blood.

12.   This problem, together with the inherent risk of infection through blood transfusions, has fueled research for an artificial blood.

13.   Baxter Healthcare spokesman Mary Thomas said the company is still trying to determine why more U.S. patients who received HemAssist died than those give the artificial blood in Europe.

14.   It may pay off someday for medicine, perhaps in designing artificial blood, he said.

15.   Some even used artificial blood and bandages to create the image that they needed medical treatment in order to attract sympathy.

16.   The push to find a blood substitute has been intense because artificial blood could ease the effects of whole-blood shortages.

17.   It will mark the first public use of artificial blood, which scientists have been trying for decades to develop.

18.   Lehigh Valley Hospital will administer the artificial blood in life-threatening situations, without requiring a special consent form to be signed.

19.   Riess said he was quite sure an artificial blood substitute would be available before the end of the century.