Your morning coffee might do more than wake you up – it could weaken donated blood. A large new study shows caffeine lowers red blood cell quality, making transfusions less effective, especially in ...

However, with these recommendations, patients with advanced blood cancers use hospice much less than patients with solid tumors. These advanced cancers include leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma, ...

There are perhaps two main areas that can contribute to 'risk' in terms of transfusion-transmitted infection: first, the risk of not identifying those transmissible infectious agents present in the ...