Federal health officials have fined the American Red Cross nearly $9.6 million for sloppy and unsafe blood management practices, the second multi-million-dollar penalty levied against the agency in ...

The need for well-organized blood donation and transfusion services is critical for the safety and efficacy of blood products. Blood safety, or hemovigilance, refers to a set of surveillance ...

Criteria for superior efficacy not met in trial involving air ambulances ...

The US Food and Drug Administration is considering shifting its blood donation policy away from blanket assessments toward questionnaires that focus more on individual risk, it said Wednesday. The ...

The circulation of safe blood products in Europe is threatened by the recent arrival and dispersal of tropical pathogens commonly associated with warmer temperatures. Contamination of blood products ...

A safe and sustainable blood supply remains elusive for many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The World Health Organization (WHO) considers blood and blood components to be essential ...

Parliament introduced the Blood Transfusion Bill, 2025, on December 12. The agenda is to establish a National Blood Transfusion Authority with statutory powers to prescribe national standards for ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - A team of medical professionals from Regional Health Command-Pacific's medical treatment facilities and units, in partnership with U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and the U ...

A senior government adviser on the safety of blood transfusions has told Sky News he is "kept awake at night" worrying about the possibility of a deadly brain disease being passed from donor to ...

Six kids with thalassaemia in the state recently contracted HIV during blood transfusion, exposing systemic lapses in screening. Experts demand better testing, stronger regulation and blood safety ...