Blood donation has been in the news lately for several reasons. First, blood donations are always needed, and it is important to continue to donate blood as we weather the COVID-19 pandemic so that we can ensure we have enough supply to take care of people who might need a transfusion f...
On April 19, she went to the American Red Cross in Farmington to donate blood plasma. She was hooked up to an apheresis machine, which took blood through a needle in one of her arms, pumped it through a machine to separate and remove the plasma and then pumped the remaining blood compon...
I think those two meanings are interesting here, since the kidney is meant to filter the blood from its impurities, while also regulating the blood pressure, the pressure of the blood as it flows through the body. It turns out that my lone kidney… the one I should be thinking of always...