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LEXINGTON, KY – The Kentucky Blood Center has announced that the FDA recommends that all blood centers throughout the country begin deferring donors who have traveled to Miami- Dade and Broward counties in Florida in the past four weeks. There has been a local outbreak of Zika virus i

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) — Lots of people attending Comic-Con dress up as superheroes, but some attendees got to be real heroes. That is because they were saving lives by donating blood. The San Diego Blood Bank is holding a special blood drive to coincide with Comic-Con. This comes as the Re

The NIH has awarded $55 million during the current federal fiscal year toward partnerships and infrastructure to launch a key component of President Barack Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI)—a research cohort of 1 million-plus Americans from which to glean data. NIH said the

Three patients died after Juno changed pre-treatment medicines FDA lifted study hold after Juno reverted to original design    Juno Therapeutics Inc. soared as much as 26 percent, the most in a year, after U.S. regulators allowed the company to resume a clinical trial of its lead

As scores lay injured in Florida hospitals after the Orlando shooting, potential donors inundated blood banks, offering what they could. For some, however, the hourslong wait ended in disappointment. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has strict guidelines about who can donate bloo

The National Institutes of Health is giving a La Jolla scientist a record $120 million to help medicine make a historic shift to treating patients based on their specific genetic makeup, lifestyle and environment. Dr. Eric Topol will co-lead the effort to enroll and engage 1 million A

Officials from the French National Blood Service visited the Blood Bank of Delmarva last month and toured their facility in Newark. French and U.S. Officials at the Blood Bank of Delmarva (Photo: Blood Bank of Delmarva) The visit was part of a day long meeting between leaders of Ameri

LifeServe Blood Center is changing its donor eligibility policy next month to comply with new FDA guidelines on blood donations from gay and bisexual men. The FDA revised its policy last December from a complete ban to accepting donations from men who haven’t had sex with men in the p

A coalition of liberal interest groups and 130 members of Congress are calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to change its current policy governing blood and plasma donations from men who have sex with men (MSM). Under the current policy, which was approved in December 201

Researchers, led by Carnegie Mellon University President Subra Suresh and MIT Principal Research Scientist Ming Dao, have created a new computer model that shows how tiny slits in the spleen prevent old, diseased or misshapen red blood cells from re-entering the bloodstream. Members o