In 1983, during the early days of the AIDS epidemic, the US Food and Drug Administration made the decision to ban gay men from donating blood. Now, 40 years later, it is dropping that rule.
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A 44th blood group was recently discovered by researchers at Bristol University.
Life-saving blood is needed for everything from treating cancers and chronic conditions to helping trauma victims. But blood donations have dropped to crisis levels during the pandemic.
The US blood supply chain is often fragile, but the coronavirus could make it more so. An expert explains.
Affirmative action programs at universities are under threat by the Trump administration. That could be especially damaging to medical education. Who knows who holds the idea for the next great cure?
Why is it only some viruses are transmissible by blood, and how does the virus actually move from person to person?
Blood transports nutrients, hormones, proteins, vitamins and minerals around our body.
Here we look at how blood transfusions started as an experiment four centuries ago, and became the modern-day life saver they are.
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Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies, UMass Amherst
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Infectious diseases and general physician, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Professor of Physiology, Columbia University
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Infectious Diseases Fellow, Monash University
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Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
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Adjunct Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare, University of California, Los Angeles
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Sydney