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Quality Control and Regulatory

Multifaceted Threats to the Blood Supply from Climate Change

Previous studies on climate change have primarily focused on how new and altered transmission patterns of zoonotic infections, such as…

April 30, 2025

A New, Simple Proxy to Measure Oxygen Unloading and the Quality of Stored Blood

The functional quality of transfused blood depends upon oxygen delivery to the tissues. Oxygen carrying capacity is easily and routinely…

January 16, 2025

Multi-Country Review of ABO-Incompatible Red Blood Cell Transfusions

Safety measures to prevent ABO-incompatible red blood cell (RBC) transfusions are in place throughout the entire process from blood donation…

November 26, 2024

FDA: Donor Screening of Zika Virus Unnecessary in United States

In 2015 and 2016, large outbreaks of the mosquito-borne Zika virus occurred in the Americas.  Infection with the Zika virus…

June 5, 2024

Annual U.K. SHOT Report on Serious Hazards of Transfusions

The Royal College of Pathologists in the United Kingdom recently published their annual report for 2022 on the Serious Hazards…

July 26, 2023

High Variability in Antibody Titer Determination in Transfusion Medicine

Antibody levels are important for many aspects of clinical care from evaluating the incompatibility of transfusions and transplants to determining…

March 2, 2023

Blood Centers Not Ready to Remove the Phthalate DEHP from Blood Bags

Phthalates are plasticizers added to many everyday plastic products to increase its flexibility, transparency, and longevity.  However, phthalates are also…

February 23, 2022

X- and Gamma-Irradiation Impact Red Blood Cells Similarly

Transfusion-associated graft versus host disease (TA-GVHD) is a rare complication that occurs when histoincompatible viable lymphocytes are transfused into an…

November 22, 2021

Blood Product Recalls Strain Finite Resources

With blood shortage concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic, blood products are now more than ever a precious commodity.  A recent…

May 6, 2020

National Survey Finds Stable Adverse Transfusion Reaction Rate in the U.S.

The 2017 National Blood Collection and Utilization Survey (NBCUS) used a web-based survey of approximately 3,000 U.S. community-based and hospital-based…

March 11, 2020

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