Food and Drug Administration fined the Red Cross $4.6 million after the latter did not make it to test blood donations and questioning donors.

As the national blood banking community considers limiting the use plasma from female donors because of a rare but potentially catastrophic lung condition, researchers from Duke University Medical Center have shown that this policy change might be premature.

According to a new study in TRANSFUSION, the number of individuals in the U.S. who are eligible to donate blood may be smaller than previously believed — approximately 60 million fewer people.

The Dutch television show purporting to feature a dying woman deciding which of three candidates would receive one of her kidneys is a hoax, its presenter said during the live broadcast on Friday (local time).