Two recent deaths tied to for-profit clinics in Canada raised concerns about the health effects of having plasma drawn as ...

“The Transfusion Medicine Service in the Department of Pathology performs therapeutic apheresis on patients who have an illness associated with an abnormal cellular or plasma-based blood component,” ...

The union health ministry has proposed doing away with testing blood products such as plasma for Hepatitis B surface antigen and antibodies to HIV and Hepatitis C, considering these tests are done ...

The trade in human blood might seem gruesome. In fact, it is essential. Plasma, the main component of blood, is a crucial ingredient for a range of medicines, from haemophilia treatments to rabies ...

Blood Assurance is facing a critical shortage of blood, plasma, and platelets just as the holiday season is starting. As the primary supplier for many area hospitals, it is essential to get donations ...

Blood plasma donation, similar to blood donation, is voluntary in most countries, but in recent years Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Hungary have followed the US in allowing plasma donors to ...