Science news articles about 'volunteer donors'

GENEVA (Reuters) - China has improved the safety of its blood supply by drawing in more volunteer donors, some of whom will be awarded Olympics-inspired "medals for life," the World Health ...

... chains start with a single "altruistic" volunteer donor. "The Good Samaritan who comes forward to donate ... year rest upon a fragile balance of donors and recipients engaged in a "matching market" where ...

... patients, trauma patients given massive blood transfusions and people with aplastic anemia. The concentrates from volunteer donors are expensive to make, require 10 or more tests for pathogens and ...

... the treatment of more patients. "We have done a terrific job in this country of increasing the number of volunteer donors listed in the National Marrow Donor Program registry over the past several ...

... post-coitus. Human amniotic fluid was collected during routine diagnostic procedures (amniocentesis) from volunteer donors between seven and 35 weeks of pregnancy. Amniotic fluid (AF) cells that had ...