Blood Donor

ARLINGTON, Texas — Familial hypercholesterolemia is common, underdiagnosed and undertreated, and one complementary approach to improve its diagnosis could include leveraging the blood donation system, according to a speaker.

The FDA has released new recommendations to measure blood donor eligibility that will eliminate time-based deferrals and screening questions targeting men who have sex with men and the women who have sex with them.

The FDA has proposed a change to its blood donation policy from time-based deferrals for men who have sex with men to “gender-inclusive, individual risk-based” assessments to protect the blood supply from HIV, the agency announced Friday.

TAMPA, Fla. — Among patients who underwent osteochondral allograft transplantation, failure of the procedure was not linked to mismatched donor-recipient blood types, a researcher said at the Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting.

The national blood inventory is at its lowest level for this time of the year since 2015, according to the Red Cross.

Based on testing of more than 1.4 million blood donations, researchers estimated that the SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence from infection or vaccination among Americans aged 16 years or older was 83% in May, before the delta variant surge.