Monitoring Iron Levels in Icelandic Blood Donors Improves Management Repeat blood donors may deplete their iron stores. The risk of iron-deficiency anemia in blood donors depends on gender, age,… March 23, 2022
Fear and Anxiety Associated with Attrition of First-Time Donors In order to tease apart whether fear and anxiety in first-time blood donors actually led to fewer return donations, researchers… October 6, 2021
SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence in Blood Donors The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) along with researchers from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and blood… September 8, 2021
Donor Interventions Increase Donor’s Return for Future Donations Donors who experience a vasovagal reaction are less likely to return for subsequent donations, and this is especially true in… September 1, 2021
SARS-CoV-2 Seropositivity of U.S. Blood Donors Prior to Availability of Vaccines In the United States, blood collection organizations, including the American Red Cross (ARC), started testing all donations for antibodies to… August 18, 2021
Tracking HIV Drug Resistance and Subtypes in Blood Donors The risk of HIV transmission from blood transfusion is low (0.16 to 0.49 per million transfusions) but is still possible… June 22, 2021
Screening for SARS-CoV-2 RNA in U.S. Blood Donors In March 2020, just a few months after the COVID-19 pandemic began in China, the U.S. launched the REDS Epidemiology,… June 8, 2021
RBCs with “Storage Lesions” Are Rapidly Cleared From Circulation and Impact Transfusion Recovery The ability to store red blood cells (RBC) up to 42 days ensures a stable blood supply, and several randomized… May 12, 2021
Should Platelet Donors be Paid? While red blood cell transfusions have decreased over the past several years, platelet transfusions have increased. In an editorial published… April 27, 2021
Evaluation of PrEP/PEP Deferrals and U.S. House of Representatives Question MSM Deferral Policy for Blood Donors Since 1983, the U.S. FDA has issued exclusionary regulations for blood donations from men who have had sex with other… April 7, 2021
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