Plasma Transfusions in the United States As part of the NHLBI Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study-III (REDS-III), plasma transfusion records from 10 US hospitals during… June 26, 2015
VIDEO: Nucleic Acid Testing for Hepatitis C Virus is Highly Effective for Screening Donated Blood Today we will be discussing the relative efficacy of different screening strategies for the hepatitis C virus (or HCV). Similar… June 15, 2015
Human Virome Can Be Profiled with a Drop of Blood Researchers from Harvard University have developed a high-throughput method called VirScan to detect infections from >200 viral species including 1000… June 12, 2015
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Platelet Transfusion Data In the United States, over two million patients receive platelet transfusions each year either prophylactically to reduce the risk of… May 29, 2015
VIDEO: Implementation of Pathogen Reduction in the United States Today we will be discussing pathogen reduction which inactivates bacteria, viruses and parasites that may contaminate blood products. European countries… May 29, 2015
FDA Recommends Screening Blood Donors Nationwide for Babesia Babesia microti, a tick-borne parasite similar to malaria, is responsible for the highest percentage of transfusion-related infectious fatalities in the… May 22, 2015
VIDEO: Innovative Ways to Think About TRALI May Reduce Cases Today we’ll be discussing TRALI, or transfusion-related acute lung injury. A major cause of TRALI is donor antibodies to white… May 15, 2015
Enzymatic Removal of A- and B-Blood Group Antigenic Determinants To Generate Universal Blood May Be Feasible Matching ABO antigens for RBC transfusions is time consuming and limits inventory. Research now shows how this barrier could be… May 8, 2015
