Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not exactly. Blood donation centers require donors to wait eight weeks — 56 days — between donations to ensure their body has had ...

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow. Doctors may recommend blood transfusions as part of AML treatment. The specific transfusion type and associated risks ...

“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,” ...

Blood separation is the dividing of whole blood into its various components. Whole blood is often isolated for therapeutic and diagnostic reasons, including research. For this to be achieved, ...

Background: Transfusion-dependent bone marrow transplant recipients are routinely transfused with ABO group and RhD-compatible blood components. However, because of the scarcity of RhD-negative blood ...

This is bloody good news. Scientists are one step closer to making faux blood a reality with funding of more than $46 million. The potentially life-saving technology will be designed by researchers at ...

A trial from England tested whether prehospital transfusion of 2 units of whole blood would be superior versus separated blood components for major traumatic hemorrhage. There was no difference ...

This article is authored by Dr Joy John Mammen, professor, Department of Transfusion Medicine and Immunohaematology, ...