VIENTIANE, April 8 (Xinhua) -- The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) on Wednesday donated medical supplies to Laos to help the country fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The donation ceremony was held here in the Lao Ministry of Health. The medical supplies included 150,000 medical ...
As blood centers and hospitals face critically low levels of blood supplies, many people with heart disease may wonder if they can help by donating. For the most part, they can do so safely, experts say. Typically, someone in the U.S. needs blood about every two seconds for reasons that...
Blood centers screen all potential donors with a questionnaire to determine which people can safely give blood, Flowers said. According to the National Institutes of Health, people with a cold or the flu can't donate blood until they have been symptom-free for 48 hours, with different limitatio...