Blood supply is typically lower during the winter months, largely due to winter holidays, travel, illness or inclement weather affecting donors' schedules. But the need for blood still exists car accidents still happen and chemotherapy treatments don't pause for the season.
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/PRNewswire/ The Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies (AABB) applauds the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for issuing a final guidance.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to relax regulations preventing gay and bisexual men from donating blood. Under the new proposal, gay and bisexual men in monogamous relationships will be allowed to donate blood if they have not had anal sex with another man within three months and if they had been in a