LAKE ZURICH, Ill. & WORCESTER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A $30 test that takes fewer than 30 minutes to perform can prevent potentially deadly transfusions of bacterial contamination in platelets, ...
Thetoday reported on the most serious infectious risks facing the blood supply: bacterial contamination of donated platelets. In its article, titled “The Biggest Blood Supply Risk: Tainted Platelets,” ...
LOS ANGELES, CA—In patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) treated with prasugrel, the incidence of high on-treatment platelet reactivity depends on the type of platelet function test used, ...
An experimental genetic test can gauge a person's risk of developing potentially deadly blood clots, researchers report. People who scored high on the test had more than double the rate of heart ...
MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Verax Biomedical today announced that it has signed an exclusive agreement with Fisher Healthcare, a large healthcare laboratory product distributor, authorizing ...
It is easy to use—A tube of blood is inserted and the result is automatically displayed within 10 minutes, making it the first test suitable to use in a clinical setting, even in the cath lab. It is ...
LightIntegra Technology, a small company in Vancouver, Canada, that has developed an optical system to improve blood transfusions for cancer patients, has raised $5.3 million in series A venture ...
An omnipresent possibility, platelet resistance is being studied more closely as witnessed by the POPULAR study published during AHA. New tests such as "VerifyNow" offer us onsite methods to screen ...