Findings from a nationwide, multicenter study led by Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggest that patients with COVID-19 have less chance of developing ...

Dried plasma was used during WW II and the Korean War, saving thousands of lives. It was banned due to the lack of screening technology for hepatitis contaminated blood. Now, military and veteran ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that a prospective study of 14 infants and children demonstrated that convalescent plasma—a blood product collected from patients recovered from infections ...

Combat medics and corpsmen may soon carry a lifesaving blood product that their counterparts in the special operations community have had for more than a decade. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

Researchers at Mayo Clinic gave an update Thursday on the experimental plasma program being used to treat patients with severe cases of COVID-19. Dr. Michael Joyner, the principal investigator, said ...

Blood plasma is a light yellow liquid that makes up about half of a person’s blood. Blood plasma is vital for fighting infection, maintaining correct blood pH levels, helping blood to clot, and ...