Hospitals, Red Cross fight over blood prices

Tuesday, August 13, 2002

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- With health-care costs soaring and hospitals looking for ways to cut expenses, skirmishes are being fought from California to the Carolinas for control of a $2 billion industry: the collection and sale of blood.

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