Changes in transfusion practices for patients with traumatic injury are associated with reductions in mortality, according to the findings of a prospective cohort study. Matthew E. Kutcher, MD, from ...

Working to save the lives of military personnel suffering massive blood loss in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, United States military trauma surgeons developed a blood transfusion protocol that is ...

Over the past year, we have observed three instances in which patients with advanced cancer received blood products solely for the purpose of altering a laboratory value to satisfy eligibility ...

An international panel of experts co-chaired by Jeffrey Carson, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has developed guidelines for new strategies that ...

A new blood transfusion strategy developed on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan looks like the best way to save civilians bleeding out from severe wounds, a new study reports. A blood ...

And that’s especially true when trauma and severe blood loss are involved. Trauma is the leading cause of death for people 45 and younger, and among trauma patients, uncontrolled bleeding is the ...

A blood transfusion can be a life-saving intervention if you’ve lost a lot of blood due to illness or injury, but there are some limits. How many blood transfusions you can safely have depends on your ...

This is a story that is as old as humanity: Once upon a time, a woman was heavy with child. For nine moons, she was heavy, and at evening her time came to birth, and the labor pains came upon her. And ...

The risk of HIV transmission through blood transfusion in India has dipped over the years due to improved screening and ...