Tim Ohmer, 66, has been donating plasma at Community Blood Bank, 2646 Peach St., since 2017, but he started as a blood donor when he was just 18.

Plasma donated to the blood bank is used directly by hospitals, while plasma sold to for-profit centers is used to create medications and cosmetic treatments. Community Blood Bank officials realize ...

Scientists have yet to find the elixir of life but this hasn't stopped longevity clinics from selling treatments, pills and ...

Self-reporting is one of the primary ways that dietitians, medical doctors, and researchers assess people’s diets and their health effects. While useful, self-reporting, often through dietary records ...

Drying droplets have fascinated scientists for decades. From water to coffee to paint, these everyday fluids leave behind ...

Published in the journal CHEST®, the American College of Chest Physicians® recently released a new clinical guideline on the ...

Scientists have identified five specific blood proteins that can accurately predict a person's risk for developing a serious ...

But it’s not like the doctors drew blood one time, found this special antibody, and made a cure that they could end up ...

Now, research published in ACS Central Science reveals a method that uses pulsed infrared light to identify molecular profiles in blood plasma that could indicate the presence of certain common ...

When blood samples are exposed to flashes of infrared light from a laser, the molecules held within the plasma vibrate. In turn, different components of the molecules absorb or reflect the energy ...

Ashford knows about these improvements because she’s part of a unique study tracking her progress via key blood biomarkers ... The biomarker plasma phosphorylated tau 217, or p-tau217 for ...