For the first time, researchers at the University of Bristol's Blood and Transplant Research Unit, and the French National Institute for Blood Transfusion, have captured the moment a red blood cell is "squeezed" while recording ...
Sep 12, 2019
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Swedish researchers determined that administering anti-D antibodies (immunoglobulins) to pregnant women who were Rhesus D (RhD) negative could prevent hemolytic disease in the infant. Findings published in Acta Obstetricia ...
Jun 27, 2013
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Human blood from donors can be stored for use up to 42 days, and it is a mainstay therapy in transfusion medicine. However, recent studies looking back at patient records have shown that transfusion with older, stored blood ...
Mar 10, 2018
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(HealthDay)—Receiving a blood transfusion during heart bypass surgery may raise a patient's risk of pneumonia, researchers report.
Jan 27, 2015
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The pain from a heart attack is so bad that—if you can imagine—it can feel like an elephant sitting on you. Patients with sickle cell disease, a genetic condition affecting the red blood cells, report that this kind of ...
Sep 18, 2023
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The University of Maryland School of Medicine is part of a new nationwide, multi-site study that may help save hundreds of lives among trauma patients with major bleeding. The study, which was published earlier this month ...
Feb 19, 2015
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Restricting red blood cell (RBC) transfusions among hospitalized patients to those with hemoglobin (the iron-containing protein in RBCs) measures below a certain level is associated with a lower risk of health care-associated ...
Apr 1, 2014
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(HealthDay)—Exjade (deferasirox) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to remove excess iron in the blood among people with a genetic blood disorder called non-transfusion-dependent thalassemia (NTDT).
Jan 24, 2013
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Cambridge researchers are taking part in the world's first clinical trial of red blood cells that have been grown in a laboratory for transfusion into another person.
Nov 7, 2022
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NHS Blood and Transplant, Queen Mary University London, and Barts Health NHS Trust have collaborated on a new study published in the journal Critical Care.
Feb 1, 2023
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