I like to dedicate a couple of columns each year to blood donation because Lee Health and our community are the grateful beneficiaries of the generosity of blood donors who help keep an adequate blood ...

Following World Blood Donor Day on June 14, the Bermuda Blood Donor Centre is encouraging the community to donate blood and learn about apheresis, a special type of blood donation. A spokesperson said ...

The demand for platelet transfusions is steadily increasing. Platelet concentrates can be obtained either as pooled concentrates from four to six whole-blood donations or as apheresis concentrates ...

With all eyes fixed on the Supreme Court’s recent health-care decision, a life-saving development swooped in under the radar: It is now legal to compensate bone-marrow donors. This represents a ...

Summary Leukapheresis, the removal of white blood cells from a patient or donor, is a critical step in the manufacturing of gene-modified T-cell therapies. The cell collection step is needed to ...

In recent years, as many of the diseases for which allogeneic HPC transplantation is indicated are associated with advancing age; this therapy has been increasingly offered to patients in their sixth ...

The fifth annual Apheresis Awareness Day is recognized on Tuesday, September 17, 2024, as designated by the American Society for Apheresis (ASFA). The purpose is to raise awareness of apheresis ...

Transfusion of the ‘wrong’ stem cell product would almost inevitably be lethal, yet assays to confirm the contents of the product bag, except by checking labels and paperwork, are lacking. To increase ...

IPOH: Regular blood donor Nazran Mohd Nawawi hopes more youngsters will come forward to donate blood. Nazran, 47, who works in a hotel in Kuala Lumpur, said he has donated blood and made Apheresis ...