Donating blood is a way to recognize Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and Blood Cancer Awareness Month in September, as ...

As the community continues to rally behind the Waters family, the family is urging people to donate blood and platelets.

THE transfusion of fresh human platelets has been shown to be an effective and practical way to control the hemorrhagic episodes in thrombocytopenia.1 Recently a variety of technics have been devis ...

February 18, 2010 — Low doses of platelets given prophylactically led to a decreased number of platelets transfused per patient but an increased number of transfusions given, according to the results ...

Acute normovolemic hemodilution (ANH) lowers the need for transfusions during cardiopulmonary bypass surgery but is underused ...

December 6, 2008 (San Francisco, California) — The dose of platelets given by transfusion to cancer patients who become thrombocytopenic can be halved without increasing the risk of bleeding, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with severe thrombocytopenia who did not receive prophylactic transfusion before catheter placement had ...

A few years back, Howell teenager Jillian Vieira was getting off the school bus on a rainy day when she slipped and fell into the street. It didn't seem like a huge deal. Then she got home and noticed ...

THE hemorrhagic tendency of thrombocytopenic animals can be controlled temporarily by transfusions of fresh platelet concentrates. 1,2 The clinical value of platelet transfusions has previously been ...

Turbulence is a critical physical factor that promotes the large-scale production of functional platelets from human induced pluripotent stem cells, researchers reportl. Exposure to turbulent energy ...

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Four people in three states developed sepsis after receiving bacteria-contaminated platelet transfusions between May and October last year, according to a US government report released Thursday. One ...