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 ...

Platelets are small, anucleate blood cells that play an essential role in hemostasis. Their primary task is to recognize vascular injury, become activated, and aggregate via their surface receptor ...

The city of Tehachapi, Vineyard Church and Houchin Community Blood Bank have announced another year of local blood drives, ...

While undergoing treatment for multiple myeloma, Rose Rose, of Jefferson Hills, Allegheny County, had to get infused with ...

Research has proven frozen blood platelets are safe and effective for use in critically injured patients—a breakthrough dramatically extending their shelf life for transfusions from one week to two ...

Credit: Getty Images CHEST has released 2 new practice guidelines on transfusions in critically ill adults that promote a more restrictive approach to RBC, FFP, and platelet transfusions. Both sets of ...

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 ...

Objective To describe the incidence of major bleeds according to different platelet counts in very preterm infants, and to explore whether this association is influenced by other risk factors for ...

During IBM’s Q2 results meeting, the company’s CEO, Arvind Krishan, commented that the company has infused AI across its businesses. The hybrid cloud business is no exception to this direction of ...