Minimal Concerns for HIV in the US Blood Supply after FDA Revised Guidance In 2015, the U.S. FDA revised guidance for blood donor deferral of men who have sex with men (MSM) from… September 15, 2020
NIH Urges Randomized Controlled Trials for COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma On September 1, 2020, shortly after the U.S. Food and Drug’s Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the use of COVID-19… September 9, 2020
High-throughput Blood Antigen Array Genotyping for Blood Donors Alloimmunization to red blood cell (RBC), human leukocyte (HLA), and human platelet (HPA) antigens can lead to hemolytic transfusion reactions… September 1, 2020
FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization for COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma To increase access to COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) use, President Trump, in conjunction with the U.S. FDA, announced Emergency Use… August 25, 2020
Restrictive Transfusion Strategies Safe for Extremely Low Birth-Weight Infants Most extremely low birth-weight (ELBW) infants develop anemia, which can result in severe brain injury and/or impaired oxygen supply to… August 19, 2020
Positive Coombs Tests and RBC Transfusions in Patients with COVID-19 During the early outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in Italy, medical doctors and researchers observed a high frequency of positive direct antiglobulin… August 12, 2020
Convalescent Plasma Is Safe and Likely Efficacious for Patients with COVID-19 There are limited therapeutic options to treat COVID-19, and COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) is currently one of the most common… August 4, 2020
Studies Find Variable Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Responses Three recent studies have analyzed anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among individuals with asymptomatic and mild SARS-CoV-2 infections, and they have found that… July 29, 2020
mRNA-1273 Vaccine Safe and Induces anti-SARS-CoV-2 Immune Responses Using prior knowledge of the importance of the coronavirus spike proteins in pathogenesis and immunity as well as the SARS-CoV-2… July 22, 2020
Practical Guidance for Blood Supply and Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic Researchers in Europe and Canada reviewed more than 9,000 publications about COVID-19 and identified 414 papers relevant to blood collections,… July 15, 2020
