The recent blood shortage in the U.S.—exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and a plummeting number of donations—has had a particularly strong effect on the growing demand for platelets, which help ...

POMONA, Calif. (KABC) -- The American Red Cross is appealing nationwide for donations to fill a critical shortage, and the organization hopes new changes in federal eligibility criteria will increase ...

The Center for Health Sciences is a complex maze to most students – but behind one particular door, another intricate system of machines works around the clock to filter, sort and label units of ...

Candida species are fungal pathogens that can commonly cause infection. Candida albicans (C. albicans), for example, is commonly detected in the blood of post-operative and immunocompromised patients.

In 2019 Dr. Stephen Withers and colleagues at the University of British Columbia identified a series of enzymes that can be used to modify the chemical structure of a sugar antigen on the surface of ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Designed to maximize productivity for blood processing centers, new Thermo Scientific blood banking centrifuges offer increased capacity that exceeds legacy centrifuge ...

Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology have developed a robotic prototype designed to help staff automate the processing of blood donation packs. Currently, processing blood donation is a ...

Join internal medicine and rheumatology specialist Siobhan Deshauer, MD, as she donates blood and follows it behind the scenes. Following is a partial transcript (note that errors are possible): ...

As a transfusion medicine physician, I have encountered increasing requests for blood from Covid-19 unvaccinated donors or directed donations based on personal beliefs. In one case, a patient refused ...