Roughly 3% of eligible people donate blood each year, according to the American Red Cross. The nonprofit says it's why blood ...

When you donate blood, it’s subjected to rigorous testing for infectious diseases like HIV and Hepatitis B and C, and quickly separated into red blood cells, plasma and platelets. Blood centers also ...

Just three nasal injections of blood cells called platelets helped people whose smell was affected by covid-19 identify new ...

January is National Blood Donor Month, and Solano County residents are doing their part to help fill a constant demand for ...

January is National Blood Donor Month, and the start of a new year makes it a great time to consider giving blood. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Red Cross have tips ...

A single blood donation, according to the Red Cross, can save up to three lives, and there is a need for blood in this ...

ADRP Advisory Board Member Amanda Hess discusses advances in transfusion medicine, challenges blood centers face, and how ...

Michigan is experiencing severe winter storms, leading to a critical shortage of blood and platelet donations at Versiti ...

Bronx residents now have a new way to make a potentially life-saving difference in the community and beyond – one plasma donation at a time. This month, ...

where it is separated into component parts of the red blood cells that carry oxygen, the liquid portion known as plasma that ...

“In the past, you’re waiting up to possibly 45 minutes before a patient would receive blood products, from an accident scene to a hospital,” McLaughlin says. “Now we can get it to them at the point of ...