A new initiative at San Diego Blood Bank uses genetic analysis on a grand scale to better match donors and recipients. Called “Precision Blood,” the program has already processed more than 30,000 ...
The UAB Hospital’s Transfusion Services, or Blood Bank, is the largest of the clinical laboratories with 40+ employees working under Lakecia Watkins, laboratory supervisor. They staff the main ...
Blood donation is the medical term for when a per­son gives (donates) blood. A person who donates blood is called a blood donor. In Nige­ria, people do not get paid for giving blood. People who give ...
Bernard Fantus coined the term "blood bank" (and opened the world's first) in 1937. Smithsonian Institution Archives The problem of getting blood to patients who need it took a step towards being ...
Captive animals sometimes need a transfusion, but the typical approach to blood banking isn’t practical for zoos and aquariums. One veterinarian is testing a solution. Dr. Lily Parkinson, a clinical ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - As hospitals face COVID-driven staffing shortages, they’re also grappling with another shortage ― critically low supplies of blood. Hawaii officials say the blood supply has ...