The NHS is celebrating one year since patients first began receiving medicines made from UK plasma.

Criteria for superior efficacy not met in trial involving air ambulances ...

As conflict escalates in Iran, citizens are lining up at blood banks to support overwhelmed hospitals. Experts say blood donation is one of the most critical medical resources during wars, when trauma ...

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is partnering with parents to raise awareness of Kawasaki disease in order to encourage crucial ...

Whole-blood transfusion has recently gained favor in the management of severe hemorrhage; however, data from large clinical trials evaluating its clinical effectiveness and safety are lacking. We ...

Canadian health authorities are investigating the deaths of two people, including a Nigerian international student, after ...

CBC News has learned two people — including a 22-year-old international student — died after giving plasma at Winnipeg collection centres that pay people for their donations.

Two people in Winnipeg have died in recent months after donating blood plasma at collection centres run by Spanish pharmaceutical company Grifols, according to Health Canada. The federal regulator ...

Weighing the rewards and risks of what is an increasingly common side gig.

The Community Blood Center (CBC) sent 50 units of whole blood plasma, which is part of a local whole blood donation, to Austin, Texas to support hospitals treating patients following a mass shooting ...

Brunei the orangutan is a good sport when Dr. Lily Parkinson draws some blood. “I'm finding his blood vessel on the ...

With aging populations on the rise, the need for better tools to diagnose and monitor Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia, has never been more urgent. This disease is ...