Cold Storage Affects Platelet Function and Glycoprotein VI Levels Maintaining an adequate supply of platelets is laborious and costly since they can only be stored for 5 to 7… October 20, 2021
RBC Transfusions and Alloimmunization in Patients Taking Daratumumab Daratumumab (Dara), an anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2015 for use… October 12, 2021
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
RBC and Plasma Transfusions Decreased in the U.S. (2015-2018) Blood transfusions are one of the most common medical procedures in hospitalized patients, and robust data from randomized clinical trials… September 28, 2021
REDS-III Study Highlights Need for Pediatric Oncology Transfusion Guidelines Pediatric hematology/oncology patients receive a significant proportion of pediatric transfusions. Data, however, are limited guiding clinical decisions for transfusions… September 22, 2021
Transfusion Outcomes in Very-Low-Birth Weight Infants Associated with Donor Sex and Age Blood donor characteristics may affect transfusion outcomes, but data are conflicting. In order to investigate the association of donor sex… September 15, 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
Convalescent Plasma Does Not Prevent Disease Progression in COVID-19 Emergency Room Patients Very few therapeutic options are available early in infectious disease epidemics with the exception of convalescent plasma. In August 2020,… August 24, 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
