Making decisions based on someone's racial or sexual identity in and of itself is not enough to prevent them from donating blood. The focus must always be on health BEHAVIORS. So, the FDA move is heralded as the right move, it takes away the stigma that gay and bise...
No differences between the two time periods were noted for the prevalence rate of HCV infection amongst new or repeat donors, or history of risk factors or specific exclusion criteria. The new literature is failing to exclude people with a history of high-risk behaviour from donating blood and ...
During the pandemic, a medical charity approached the lab about donating thousands of oximeters to poor countries. The oximeters it had chosen "weren't very good," he said. After that, the lab set up its own ratings page, a kind of Consumer Reports for pulse oximeters. According to its...
The medical questionnaire is used as part of the process to evaluate a donor’s suitability and eligibility status for donation. At the time of VT, the medical history questionnaire should provide information that evaluates a prospective donor’s suitability and eligibility status for donating stem ...
Ninety-five percent (95.3%) did not believe that sperm donation is equivalent to donating blood, and 92.9% believed it to be different from organ donation. Discussion “Sooner or later the consequences (of sperm donation) grow up and may have very different opinions (from providers and parents...
But that’s not the case anymore, which is why Wiener and others have been pushing for the FDA for a complete lift on the ban on gay men donating blood. Wiener said he would like to donate but still wouldn’t qualify even with the new FDA criteria, but is doing what he can to ...
Blood banks use a donor history questionnaire to screen for people who have had malaria or who lived in a country where the disease is endemic in the past three years. People are also deferred from donating if they have traveled to a country with endemic malaria in the previous three months...
Despite the ever-progressing technological advances in producing data in health and clinical research, the generation of new knowledge for medical benefits through advanced analytics still lags behind its full potential. Reasons for this obstacle are the inherent heterogeneity of data sources and the lac...
Design and method: 16–19 year old volunteers donating blood between 2015 and 2020 were enrolled. They were asked to identify their ethnicity. Those declining were identified as "other''. Blood pressure was measured using automated equipment (Welch Allyn, ProBP). We compared the European Society...
Forty-five couples donating embryos to stem cell research. Likert scales were used to assess whether participants regarded embryos as children and whether donation was analogous to organ or blood...doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.02.003Julianne E. Zweifel...