The experimental therapy transfusing the blood plasma of people who have recovered from COVID-19 into patients fighting the disease is coming to more Houston-area hospitals. Baylor College of Medicine ...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) – Scripps Health recently became the first health care provider in San Diego County to use an experimental plasma therapy as a possible treatment for COVID-19 patients, the hospital ...
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Survivors of COVID-19 could have an opportunity to help save the lives of anyone who ends up battling the virus. UTHealth and Memorial Hermann announced Monday they are ...
As the global pandemic continues to take lives, the FDA has approved nationwide trials to treat COVID-19, including plasma therapy. It's a technique that was used to treat patients with SARS, H1N1, ...
A new study finds that convalescent plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients can dramatically improve likelihood of survival among blood cancer patients hospitalized with the virus. The therapy ...
Just five weeks after being some of the first in the country to jump on an experimental treatment for desperately ill COVID-19 patients, doctors at Children’s Hospital Colorado are seeing promising ...
ORLANDO (CBSMiami) -- Getting an antibody test just got easier thanks to OneBlood. If you donate blood with OneBlood, they will also test for coronavirus antibodies. The antibody test can indicate if ...
In 2014, I spent 19 days being treated for Ebola in a New York City hospital. I had contracted the virus while treating patients in Guinea, and as no definitive treatments existed at the time, I ...
Three years after the U.S. blood banking industry issued recommendations that discourage transfusing plasma from female donors because of a potential antibody reaction, Duke University Medical Center ...
Three years after the US blood banking industry issued recommendations that discourage transfusing plasma from female donors because of a potential antibody reaction, researchers discovered that ...