31. "There was no viable treatment, " says Heilbrun, who organized co-workers to donate blood platelets for his mother's treatment. 32. Initial blood tests performed while he was still in Ramallah in the West Bank revealed a low blood platelet count. 33. Palestinian physicians who examined him Thursday said he did not have cancer but did have a low blood platelet count. 34. He also regularly donated blood platelets , in honor of an uncle who died of leukemia the year McDermott was born. 35. With only 1, 000 platelets she was a hemophiliac and admitted to the ICU for an emergency blood platelet transfusion. 36. Sugen also has a deal with Amgen ( NSDQ : AMGN ) to develop drugs for neurological and blood platelet disorders. 37. Franklin was admitted to Detroit's Sinai-Grace Hospital after her blood platelet count dropped, Dr . Claud Young told WXYZ-TV on Tuesday. 38. The drug boosts blood platelet levels and thus clotting ability in cancer patients whose platelet supply has been depleted by chemotherapy. 39. It works by making the blood platelets slippery, thus discouraging their clumping, which is one of the steps of blood clotting. 40. It is an antimitotic agent and shows weak inhibitory activity of blood platelet aggregation induced by simulation of the central nervous system.
