Technological advances and new tools may offer the best chance to help underdeveloped blood deserts in the short term.

In what Springfield, Mo.-based CoxHealth officials are calling an “isolated event,” a patient who needed a blood transfusion at Springfield-based Cox South Hospital was given the wrong blood ...

A hospital patient died after receiving a unit of blood platelets tainted with E. coli bacteria, the Community Blood Center in Kansas City said. The Food and Drug Administration determined the ...

Following administration of 1 unit of packed red blood cells that had been collected 17 days earlier, the patient's serum ammonia level was 806 µmol/L, compared with 53 µmol/L on admission.

Blood transfusions have been one of the most incredible medical advancements in human history, saving countless lives. The ...

Dr. Craig Spencer, the New York physician who contracted the Ebola virus while volunteering with Doctors Without Borders in West Africa, received a transfusion of blood plasma on Friday from ...

To some extent, the role involves ensuring that our Trust complies with Blood Safety and Quality Regulations (2005). This is legislation which is applicable to all areas of the transfusion process to ...

A heart patient at Bengaluru carries a never-before-seen blood group, which has now been named CRIB, leaving doctors stunned ...

Patient’s rights are derived from the principle of patient autonomy which recognizes the human capacity to self-govern and choose a course of action from among different therapeutic options.

A blood transfusion was indicated, but his family refused for religious reasons. One evening the on- call resident, unaware of the patient’s faith, ordered a transfusion.

Perspective > Medscape Pathology COMMENTARY I Thought a Blood Transfusion Would Make Me Feel Better Leonard I. Boral, MD, MBA; Duncan C. MacIvor, MD; Julie A. Ribes, MD, PhD Disclosures March 28 ...

Blood may be free in public hospitals, but low supplies leave Zimbabweans borrowing money to pay for private stocks.