Blood plasma is a necessary resource to produce life-saving medicine. Because people are the only source, donors are often ...

We've all had times when we've been a little short on cash. It gets us thinking about what we can do to earn some extra money to tide us over until the next month. And if you like the idea of helping ...

Life-saving plasma therapies are essential for many patients, but every year we flirt with a shortage. Plasma collected in the United States is the source material for more than 70 percent of the ...

As more people are caught in the economic squeeze of a rising cost of living, many are looking for ways to make extra money. A growing number are turning to selling their blood plasma — an essential ...

Donating plasma and donating blood are essentially the same process: the entry questionnaire, getting hooked up to a machine, the cookie afterward. But in the US there’s a key difference: one is an ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — In this "gig economy," more and more people are looking for ways to make extra cash. Ever since the financial meltdown of 2008, the cash-for-plasma business has been booming.

The U.S. supplies 94 percent of the world's paid plasma. — -- Every day in cities across the country, tens of thousands of people wait in line to have a needle put in their arms for up to two ...

While you've heard about squeezing blood from a stone, what about taxes from a plasma donation? Donating plasma requires drawing and separating whole blood into liquid (or plasma) and red blood cells, ...