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Holiday season leads to donation slowdown at Canadian Blood Services
Globalnews.ca From the time donors walk in the door to the time they leave, donating blood takes about 60 minutes but it takes less than 15 minutes for the blood to be drawn. Donating platelets takes a bit longer, but long-time donor Tim McLaughlin says it’s worth it. |
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Easing ban on blood donations a good step
Columbus Dispatch The Food and Drug Administration’s plan to change its blood–donation guidelines might not make an enormous difference in the available blood supply, but it will help. It also gets rid of a decades-old prohibition that wasn’t based on current scientific … |
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‘I donated blood and made Santa happy’
Times of India CHANDIGARH: As people celebrated Christmas, a few took a pledge to please Santa in their own special play. At the behest of the NGO Emerging Youth Blood Donors‘ Organization (EYBDO), 900 people got their photographs clicked with Santa pledging to … |
Haaretz |
Israel easing blood donor restrictions, but not on Brits
Haaretz If the answer to that question is that you were in the United Kingdom for more than a combined total of six months, then you have a restriction you may not be aware of: you can’t donate blood in Israel. This has been the rule for over a decade and it … |
Jewish Business News |
Senators Baldwin, Warren, Blast FDA’s Proposed Policy on Blood Donations
Jewish Business News Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) took to Twitter on Tuesday to criticize the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s proposed new policy on blood donations from gay men, saying that while the recommendation is a “step forward” it is still “discriminatory,” … |
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FDA discusses easing blood donation ban on gay men
KITV Honolulu The lifetime ban dates back to the early years of the AIDS crisis and was intended to protect the blood supply, but as tests for HIV in donated blood have become standard, calls for the FDA to lift the ban increased. “When we look at what’s been … |
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US moves to end ban on blood donations by gay men
CNBC WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials are recommending an end to the nation’s lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, a 31-year-old policy that many medical groups and gay activists say is no longer justified. The Food and Drug … |
Blood donation days wrap up for 2014Register-Herald… collections for Preble County for 2014 with a total of 2756 donors registering at 57 blood drives held in the county and 2249 blood products were collected to be transfused to about 6649 patients i…
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Mixed response to FDA’s gay blood donor decision
WCSH-TV PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — The FDA announced plans this week to alter its ban on gay male blood donors. Instead of a lifetime ban, the FDA recommends barring men who have had gay sex in the previous year. It’s a decision that’s receiving a … |
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AHF: New FDA Policy on Gay Blood Donors Remains Flawed
Business Wire (press release) While the FDA policy update announced today will lift a decades-long lifetime ban on blood donations by gay men, restrictions in the new policy—including a provision that would allow gay men and other men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) to donate blood … |