The national blood supply dropped nearly 25% in June. Platelets, types O positive and B negative are critical.

The American Red Cross is urging people across Central Illinois to donate blood due to a nationwide emergency blood shortage, ...

The American Red Cross is urging donors of all blood types to schedule an appointment to give blood, platelets or plasma as ...

Background Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is a systemic autoinflammatory disorder lacking a gold-standard diagnostic ...

Vitalant is urging people to donate type O blood to combat the critical blood shortage, with thousands of appointments still ...

Thrombocytopenia also known as low platelet count is a medical condition that occurs when the platelets in the blood fall below the normal range. Platelets are small blood cells that help blood clot ...

Before the death of a 22-year-old Winnipeg woman, the machine being used to collect her plasma issued an alert that meant ...

Platelets, which allow blood to clot, can save patients in danger of bleeding to death from traumatic injuries. But donated platelets can only be given to patients in a hospital and last only a few ...

A freeze-dried blood product that could be stored for years on ambulances or in remote emergency departments is showing promise at treating traumatic brain injuries. The news comes from a mouse study ...

A team from Würzburg has fundamentally changed our understanding of platelet biology. The researchers demonstrate that the surface protein integrin αIIbβ3 is not only a key molecule in blood clotting, ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My husband was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in 2010 and remained in stage 2 with no effects until 2022. In the interim, he was also diagnosed with atrial ...