It was before work on a recent morning when the two nice women led me to the padded, contoured chair where I’d relax for the next 90 minutes or so. They put a movie I picked in the DVD player, handed ...

When it comes to heroic acts, you may not envision reclining on a comfy chair and watching TV while a machine beeps like an old-school arcade as it separates you from your platelets. However, heroism ...

OCEAN VIEW, Del., Sept. 5, 2017 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The Industry outlook report "Apheresis Equipment MarketBy Product (Machine, Disposable Kits), By Application (Renal Disease, Hematology, ...

If we are cut, do we not bleed? But more importantly, shouldn't that wound eventually stop bleeding? For some patients wounds only heal with the help of donated platelets -- the tiniest elements of ...

Desperate to have their lives back, long COVID patients are turning to an expensive “last resort” therapy to cure the mysterious illness. Apheresis, or “blood washing,” is a process in which a ...

Paulette Dellavecchio was encouraged last weekend as almost 30 people showed up at an event in Kearney sponsored by the National Bone Marrow Organizations Nebraska Office in Omaha. "There's people in ...

MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. – The world is searching for a treatment, a cure and a prevention for COVID-19. One piece of that puzzle may be tapped via the sap of human ...

Autologous peripheral SCT has largely replaced BMT for the treatment of cancer in both adults and children. Cells are collected by apheresis. The technique has been widely used in France since its ...

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet (PIA) — The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Benguet Chapter can now collect blood elements more efficiently with the recent acquisition of an apheresis machine. The apheresis machine ...