How Cost-Effective Is Zika Virus Screening? In 2016, the United States began mandated screening of individual donations for the Zika Virus (ZIKV) using nucleic acid testing… October 31, 2018
Sexually Transmitted Disease Rates among Reinstated MSM Donors In December 2016, the American Red Cross began collecting blood from men who have sex with men (MSM) in… October 17, 2018
Matching RH Genotypes for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease RH antigens are encoded by two highly polymorphic genes, RHD and RHCE. Homologous recombination and novel polymorphism have resulted in… September 19, 2018
Reducing the risk of transfusion transmitted Babesia: an AABB Report Babesia is an intraerythorcytic parasite transmitted by black-legged ticks and is also the most common infectious agent for transfusion transmitted… September 12, 2018
Universal Donor Red Blood Cells Can Be Genetically Engineered Using CRISPR Gene Editing Alloimmunization commonly affects 2-5% of all transfusion recipients and approximately 30% of chronically transfused patients with sickle-cell disease. Since ABO… May 2, 2018
Intravenous Iron Supplementation Increases Hemoglobin and Iron Levels in Female Blood Donors Since iron deficiency in blood donors is a common problem and compliance for taking oral iron supplements may be challenging,… February 20, 2018
Global Variations in Blood Safety and Availability Based on WHO Report Every two years since 1998 the World Health Organization (WHO) has collected data on blood safety and availability. The WHO… January 24, 2018
Hispanic Blood Donors at Increased Risk of Low Iron Levels Age, sex and donation frequency are known risk factors for low iron levels in blood donors. To identify other risk… October 11, 2017
Frequent Donors Give More Blood but Are More Likely to be Iron Deficient The first randomized trial assessing donation-intervals recently published in The Lancet will help to clarify safe whole blood donation frequencies… September 27, 2017
Demographic Changes Directly Impact Blood Supply, but Not Demand In order to determine if demographic changes impact both blood supply and demand, researchers in Germany organized a prospective, 10-year… June 28, 2017
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