Volunteers often gather more than just blood at blood drives, they also collect platelets which are essential in a number of ...

Volunteers often gather more than just blood at blood drives. They also collect platelets— cell fragments carried in the ...

A new research paper was published in Aging (Aging-US) on February 18, 2025, Volume 17, Issue 2, titled "Transcriptomic ...

Stimulating platelet production with romiplostim is an effective strategy for managing patients with ITP. Thrombocytopenias can be caused by increased platelet destruction, decreased platelet ...

Shanghai collected 101,900 units of platelets in 2024, surpassing 100,000 units for the first year with an increase of 9.4 ...

Brain tumours remain the most common cause of death from childhood cancer. Paediatric high-grade gliomas (pHGG) in particular are a mostly fatal disease group with a median survival time of less than ...

A Shanghai-based expatriate blood donation organization was among local individuals, organizations and facilities honored for promoting and organizing platelet donation. Ashish Maskay, a Nepalese ...

McKay Hansen started fighting against cancer when he was just three years old. Today, supporters hope to honor him with a ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14, after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly ...

March is Red Cross Month, a time to recognize all the volunteers and the work the Red Cross does.There is always a need for blood and platelet donations. This ...

For much of his life, McKay Hansen relied on the generosity of blood and platelet donors amid his fight against cancer. The Clinton boy was diagnosed at just 3 years old with Stage 4, high-risk ...