Red Cross appeals for donors during national blood shortage
The American Red Cross said Monday that it urgently needs blood donations because the national blood supply has dropped nearly 25 percent since early August.
Sep 12, 2023
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The American Red Cross said Monday that it urgently needs blood donations because the national blood supply has dropped nearly 25 percent since early August.
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A major study published in JAMA led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet suggests that a possible cause of spontaneous brain hemorrhage could be transmitted via blood transfusion. At the same time, it is very unlikely ...
Sep 12, 2023
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In the U.S., 17 people die every day while waiting for an organ transplant. Dr. Shennen Mao, a Mayo Clinic transplant surgeon, says having a diverse pool of organ donors will help serve a growing wait list of those in need.
Aug 16, 2023
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Researchers in Italy have shown for the first time that among children who have undergone a donor stem cell transplant, the presence of diverse species of micro-organisms in the intestinal tract before the transplant resulted ...
Aug 10, 2023
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A clinical trial comparing conventional low-temperature storage of transplant donor livers with storage at physiological body temperature has revealed promising results for the evolution of liver transplantation. Results ...
Jul 17, 2023
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Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, were present in the blood of 96.4% of Americans over the age of 16 by September 2022. That's according to a serosurvey—an analysis testing for the presence of these ...
Jun 16, 2023
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Almost all blood donors had severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) antibodies from previous infection or vaccination by the third quarter of 2022, with the prevalence of hybrid immunity lowest for adults ...
Jun 9, 2023
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Testing older potential organ donors for dangerous "zombie" cells could help to increase the number of hearts available for transplant, according to research presented at the British Cardiovascular Society conference in Manchester.
Jun 5, 2023
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Pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN) lesions were detected in a majority of healthy pancreases from deceased donors of diverse age and harbored features of pancreatic cancer, according to a study published in Cancer ...
Apr 6, 2023
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A bone marrow transplant can be a lifesaving treatment for people with relapsed blood cancers, but a potentially lethal complication known as graft-versus-host disease put limitations on this procedure. New research from ...
Mar 24, 2023
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