Before Andrea Acerra, 45, had a hysterectomy due to heavy periods in November, she received an iron infusion to boost her red blood cell count and stave off the need for a transfusion. "I was just ...

Bloodless medicine, treatments that minimize or eliminate the use of blood products in surgical procedures, is gaining a wider audience, including on Long Island, where doctors say transfusions can be ...

needed surgery. Doctors told the 42-year-old mother of three that fibroid tumors were taking over her uterus. It had swollen to the size and shape of a butternut squash. Troubling news, indeed. But ...

FLORIDA — BACKGROUND: With someone needing blood every two seconds in the U.S. for one reason or another, surgeries and medical procedures performed without the use of blood are a preferable choice by ...

Bloodless surgery is a safe alternative for patients who do not want to receive blood transfusions during surgery, health experts told Fox News. Bloodless surgery helps individuals receive the surgery ...

Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center has become a hub for Jehovah's Witnesses seeking bloodless medical procedures. The hospital's bloodless medicine program, established in 2022, treats about 300 ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Jock Davis smiled and sat up on his bed at Pennsylvania Hospital last week, looking more like a guy on vacation than on high-dose chemotherapy for a blood cancer called multiple ...

The goal is to conserve and make better use of a precious resource - blood. Jock Davis of Rochester, New York, may not look sick now, but for years, the 48-year-old businessman has been battling a ...

When Irv Shapiro found out he needed surgery to fix a ruptured heart valve, one of the first questions he asked his doctor was whether he should donate his own blood. He hoped to avoid being ...

Milwaukee--An exhaustive review and analysis of the medical literature by a panel of experts at the International Consensus Conference on Transfusion and Outcomes (ICCTO) held this month in Phoenix ...