Two recent deaths tied to for-profit clinics in Canada raised concerns about the health effects of having plasma drawn as ...

Grifols, a Spanish health care company, operates clinics in Canada that collect blood plasma from donors in exchange for an ...

“The Transfusion Medicine Service in the Department of Pathology performs therapeutic apheresis on patients who have an illness associated with an abnormal cellular or plasma-based blood component,” ...

Blood plasma donation, similar to blood donation, is voluntary in most countries, but in recent years Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Hungary have followed the US in allowing plasma donors to ...

The union health ministry has proposed doing away with testing blood products such as plasma for Hepatitis B surface antigen and antibodies to HIV and Hepatitis C, considering these tests are done ...

A recent study published in Engineering presents a novel approach to analyzing the low-abundant N–glycoproteome in human blood plasma (HBP), which could significantly advance the discovery of plasma ...

Currently, plasma donation in the central North Island is only possible at the permanent donor centres in Hamilton, Tauranga, ...