Healthcare advances mean that people are living longer lives than ever. But with this progress comes a need that is often hard to fill: enough blood donations, or, in the case of countries suffering ...

Cobb County Fire and Emergency Services (CCFES) performed the county's first-ever pre-hospital blood transfusion on a trauma patient. The transfusion involved administering red blood cells and fresh ...

Incident marked state's first whole blood transfusion performed in the field. Dispatch algorithms for the program sent the rescue ambulance to the scene. A stabbing in Oxnard morphed into a noteworthy ...

The Frederick County Division of Fire and Rescue Services has a new system to make whole blood transfusions available at the scene of accidents or before going to the hospital. Whole blood is what ...

As the National Blood Transfusion Bill, 2025 gets introduced in Parliament, patients recount how unsafe screening changed their lives forever and why screening donor blood should be mandatory.

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -The “All American” DUSTOFF company executes first in-flight whole blood transfusion over Fort Bragg Apr. 30. Charlie Company of the 3-82 General Support Aviation Battalion (GSAB), ...

On December 21, 1933, biochemists Stuart Mudd and Earl Flosdorf tasted success for the first time in their efforts to prepare dried human blood serum. While it remained a novelty until the onset of ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I read that in the 1700s, animal blood was transfused into humans to cure syphilis. Is this true? -- T.U. ANSWER: The story is a bit more complicated. Transfusion from animals into ...

Five children with thalassemia in Madhya Pradesh tested HIV positive after repeated blood transfusions, raising serious ...