ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – St. Johns County Fire and Rescue has significantly improved survival rates by carrying blood to critical accident scenes. Lt. Sean Brasiel and his team have been providing ...

Flight paramedics and nurses from Atlantic Health can now perform potentially life-saving blood transfusions at crash scenes and during helicopter transports to critically-injured patients. The ...

ELKHART, Ind. (WNDU) - Madison Tucker got to say thank you tonight. In July, the 25-year-old was a passenger on a motorcycle that was hit by a hit-and-run driver in Elkhart. First responders with the ...

Nearly half of all Americans have high blood pressure – a condition called hypertension. Hypertension is the No. 1 risk factor for heart disease and stroke. In addition, hypertension increases risk of ...

The young puppy was attacked by two dachshunds and a Pitbull Getty A puppy died from "severe blood loss" after it was mauled by multiple dogs The 5-month-old dog was attacked by two dachshunds and a ...

Captive animals sometimes need a transfusion, but the typical approach to blood banking isn’t practical for zoos and aquariums. One veterinarian is testing a solution. Dr. Lily Parkinson, a clinical ...

Elevated caffeine linked to increased hemolysis and lower posttransfusion hemoglobin increments. (HealthDay News) — Caffeine may impair the quality of donated blood and reduce transfusion ...

CUMBERLAND, R.I. (WJAR) — Cumberland EMS and Rhode Island Blood Center launched Rhode Island's first program to give blood transfusions to trauma patients before they reach the hospital. The ...

Ritu Trivedi is a member of the Australian National Hypertension Taskforce working groups for patient activation and engagement, and awareness and screening of high blood pressure. Dean Picone ...

Apple’s focus on health is well-known, so when it announced hypertension notifications for Apple Watch Series 11 and Apple Watch Ultra 3, I suspected it might be deployed more widely. And it is.

Your morning coffee might do more than wake you up – it could weaken donated blood. A large new study shows caffeine lowers red blood cell quality, making transfusions less effective, especially in ...