“Eat your green veggies!” We’ve been telling blood donors things like that for decades, but is it really helpful? Dr. Jed Gorlin explains the recent, troubling data on iron and blood donors. In recent years, several excellent studies have...
If you’ve ever found yourself missing out on a new bit of Transfusion Medicine news, you might want to start using a tool that is becoming indispensable! Yes, it’s Twitter! Twitter, obviously, is not new. The “microblogging” platform has gone...
Transfusing patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) is a big deal, for many reasons. Eric Gehrie guides us through those challenges, especially alloimmunization (making antibodies against red cell antigens). History Lesson: Around 1910, Dr. James Herrick discovered...
Molecular testing is everywhere in medicine today, and the blood bank is no exception! Meghan Delaney offers 7 practical uses for molecular testing in Transfusion Medicine. You can hardly turn around in health care today without hearing someone talking about genetic...
The Direct Antiglobulin Test seems super-simple, but there’s more to it than meets the eye! Sue Johnson joins me to discuss. The DAT (also known as the “Direct Coombs” test) is really a basic and easy test to do. For such a simple test, however, most...
