COVID-19 Pandemic Leading to Blood Supply Shortages The worldwide pandemic of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19 disease (or coronavirus disease 2019), is disrupting every aspect… March 17, 2020
Risk of Transfusion Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Is Only Theoretical The novel coronavirus that was first reported in December 2019 from Wuhan, China has been renamed SARS-CoV-2, and causes the… March 4, 2020
Minimal Residual Risk for HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C from Blood Products Based on screening results of over 58 million blood donations from the American Red Cross from more than 14.7 million… February 28, 2020
Decreases in U.S. Blood Donors Despite Increases in Eligible Donors Although the number of RBC and whole blood cell transfusions has decreased by approximately 10% over the last decade, there… December 12, 2019
Urgent Global Need of Blood Products The current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines recommend 10-20 blood donations per 1000 individuals, but these guidelines do not take… October 29, 2019
Extended Trial Confirms that Frequent Donors Give More Blood but Are More Likely to be Iron Deficient The original INTERVAL trial randomly assigned more than 45,000 blood donors in the United Kingdom to different donation frequencies… September 25, 2019
Red Blood Cells Donated by Smokers Associated with Lower Increments Many recent studies have investigated the safety of blood according to donor demographics (e.g. age, sex, genetic polymorphisms) and blood… August 14, 2019
Enzymatic Conversion of Group A Blood to Universal Group O Blood As reported in Nature Microbiology, researchers have identified a set of enzymes isolated from human gut bacteria that convert the… June 26, 2019
Screening Blood Donors for Familial Hypercholesterolemia Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) a genetic disorder which increases the risk of cardiovascular disease 100-fold and affects approximately 1 in 250… May 29, 2019
Chagas Disease Screening for Family Members of Positive Blood Donors Chagas disease (CD) is a zoonotic infection caused by blood sucking Trypanosoma cruzi—a parasite that infects over 6 million people… April 10, 2019
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