Blood

Shropshire patients thank blood donors for life-saving plasma

A patient from Telford who needed a lifesaving treatment developed from blood plasma has thanked donors.Over the past three years,…

2 years ago

AI is trained to spot warning signs in blood tests

Dr Daniel Heller is a biomedical engineer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.His team have been developed…

2 years ago

First final compensation in blood scandal to be paid in days

Chancellor Rachel Reeves said in the October budget that £11.8bn had been set aside to compensate victims, in what is…

2 years ago

Mum given 65 blood bags to save her life

It took four surgeons operating at once, alongside a team of theatre staff at Warrington Hospital, to save Adele. Adele…

2 years ago

Anger after infected blood compensation put on hold

Kim submitted paperwork on behalf of her younger brother who was infected with HIV aged 16 and died in 1998.…

2 years ago

Hassan Nasrallah’s blood ‘will not go unavenged’, Iran warns

Friday’s Israeli strike levelled several buildings in Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahieh, underneath which the Israeli military said Hezbollah’s central…

2 years ago

Lung cancer: DNA blood test could benefit thousands of patients

Some money had already been raised for the project which is run by the Life Sciences Wales Hub, external as…

2 years ago

NHS warns of continued short supply of blood in England

In July, for only the second time in its history, the NHS warned hospitals that stocks of O-type blood -…

2 years ago

Northumberland research finds blood can be safely moved by drones

Drones can be safely used to deliver urgent blood stocks between hospitals, a new project suggests.Researchers from NHS Blood and…

2 years ago

Infected blood compensation payouts on the way

The government announcement comes after Sir Robert Francis, the interim chair of the new Infected Blood Compensation Authority, reviewed the…

2 years ago