Some ambulances in Worcester and Shrewsbury will now be equipped with a supply of blood, making transfusions possible for critically ill and injured patients being taken to a hospital. This new ...

Thanks to the Texas legislature, Wichita County is among the top two percent of EMS services in the country to receive ...

NHS Blood and Transplant, Queen Mary University London, and Barts Health NHS Trust have collaborated on a new study published in the journal Critical Care. The study recruited 909 major traumatic ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers reviewed various randomized clinical trials and cohort studies to evaluate the decrease in mortality rates among coronavirus ...

FINCASTLE, Va. (WFXR) — Botetourt County Fire/EMS has officially launched its pre-hospital whole blood program, allowing ...

More than 60,000 people in the US bleed to death every year from traumatic events, Blood transfusions at the scene could change that. KFF Health News — One August afternoon in 2023, Angela Martin’s ...

Significant bleeding due to traumatic injury is the number one cause of preventable deaths in the U.S., with the majority of deaths occurring within six hours. Emerging evidence suggests that the ...

HOUSTON. Every three seconds someone in the world needs a blood transfusion. White blood cells (leukocytes) in donor blood can cause serious medical complications, as many viruses (including ...

In U.S. areas with a high prevalence of alpha-gal syndrome, patients with blood type O who received B or AB vs. O ...