NHS Blood and Transplant, Queen Mary University London, and Barts Health NHS Trust have collaborated on a new study published in the journal Critical Care. The study recruited 909 major traumatic ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers reviewed various randomized clinical trials and cohort studies to evaluate the decrease in mortality rates among coronavirus ...

PBCFR is using a cutting-edge medical protocol: administering plasma to critically injured patients before they ever reach ...

Findings from a nationwide, multicenter study led by Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggest that patients with COVID-19 have less chance of developing ...

Platelet transfusion thresholds in according bleeding risk and the presence of bleeding. WHO = World Health Organization. “In practice, we see all too often [that] prophylactic transfusion of ...

Dried plasma was used during WW II and the Korean War, saving thousands of lives. It was banned due to the lack of screening technology for hepatitis contaminated blood. Now, military and veteran ...

The business of collecting blood for money is growing nationwide, and Gainesville is no exception. The city is already home to for-profit plasma collection centers KEDPLASMA Gainesville and Grifols ...

Rwanda is expected to start exporting blood plasma for fractionation later this year, once the remaining technical and regulatory requirements are completed, according to Dr Thomas Muyombo, Blood ...

Only about five percent of the blood plasma collected in Rwanda is used locally, with the rest discarded after reaching its ...