LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Long before vaccines, the focus was on a handful of COVID-19 treatments that provided glimmers of hope. The first to emerge was convalescent plasma. It offered a way for ...

Some longtime advocates of the therapy say they’re pessimistic about its future. This is a Kaiser Health News story. Six months after it was controversially hailed by Trump administration officials as ...

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health supported the first blood center in the U.S. to be granted full FDA approval to provide convalescent plasma to immunocompromised ...

The FDA’s withdrawal of its authorization for Evusheld, a monoclonal antibody therapy used to prevent and treat Covid-19, leaves no monoclonals available for this purpose. Another monoclonal, ...

HOUSTON – Houston Methodist is renewing its call for recovered COVID-19 patients to donate convalescent plasma. The local hospital was the first academic medical center in the nation to treat patients ...

A new study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health estimates that thousands of lives could have been saved during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic if convalescent ...

A new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and colleagues suggests that a slowdown in the use of convalescent plasma to treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients led to ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a glimmer of hope for treating patients with something called convalescent plasma, which is taken from the blood of patients who ...

Researchers examine whether the blood of a recovered patient can help others. Experts are hoping a century-old technique used for treating epidemics may hold new promise for treating COVID-19 patients ...

COVID-19 vaccine recipients can donate plasma If Your Time is short COVID-19 vaccine recipients can generally donate plasma. The Red Cross requires that plasma that could be used as convalescent ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers conduct a quasi-experimental multi-center analytical study involving hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients to ...

A new study estimates that thousands of lives could have been saved during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic if convalescent plasma had been used more broadly, particularly in outpatients at ...