Blood clotting, or coagulation, is a complex process that helps us survive when we're injured. Fibrin threads trap blood cells and stop blood loss.
MacRumors is pleased to announce the Seventh Annual MacRumors Blood Drive, throughout the month of May 2016. Our goal every year is to save lives by increasing the number of life-saving blood and platelet donations. While most blood drives are specific to a geographic location, our blood dri...
One donation can help up to three different people, so that makes me feel really good. The payback is unbelievable. Bruce, Blood & Platelet Donor 720+ Lifetime Donations Vitalant Clinical Services Vitalant offers a comprehensive array of clinical services for patients, physicians, and other healt...
P-09 BLOOD VALUES OF APHERESIS DONORS IN PLATELET DONATION DURING TWO CONSECUTIVE DONATIONSdoi:10.1016/S1473-0502(12)70045-9S. GungorH. GuvelB. Karaayak UzunN. BaranElsevier LtdTransfusion & Apheresis Science
7. To do as well as or better than in competition; equal: She easily matches me in bicycle racing. 8. To set in comparison; compare: beauty that could never be matched. 9. To provide funds so as to equal or complement: The government will match all private donations to the museum. ...
“It means a lot to me [to donate blood today]. I came here from the Changhu Metro Station, which is only three Metro stations away,” Ma said. Ma claimed to have donated blood 86 times. He usually donates platelets once a month. A platelet dona...
help save multiple lives. Blood is essential for life. Oxygen would never reach your cells without blood, and carbon dioxide would fill your blood vessels. People with cancer or those who have been in accidents and require heart surgery or organ transplants all need platelet or blood donations...
It is encouraging that the numbers of GM-CFC recovered in placental blood “units,” 2 to 2.5 × 106, compare favorably with the total collected in marrow donations for adults and that the proportion and absolute numbers of earlier precursors may be higher in placental blood than in BM collec...
we believe that plasma and platelet donation practices and motivations are sufficiently similar for these two types of donors to be grouped together. Indeed, we know that donors increasingly make both plasma and platelet donations. It should also be noted that this grouping helped increase the numbe...
Give it a go! I've been a blood donor forever and a platelet donor for over 8 years now, reaching over 108 donations. Everyone should give it a go. You...