The world’s supply of many life-saving medications depends on people in the United States deciding to sell their blood plasma ...

Blood plasma is big business — especially along the U.S.–Mexico border. Every day, thousands of Mexican citizens cross ...

On average, an adult has about 1.2 to 1.5 gallons – or 10 units – of blood in their body, according to the American Red Cross. This accounts for approximately 10% of a person's weight. Now that's a ...

Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. This rebroadcast originally aired on February 28th, 2023. Millions of Americans sell their blood plasma every year. It’s ...

Odds are you’ve been asked to donate blood before — maybe even from us at The Star recently, as we prepare for a blood drive on Tuesday. And you’ve maybe heard the request for donations even more over ...

Blood plasma is big business — especially along the U.S.–Mexico border. Every day, thousands of Mexican citizens cross ...

As a kid, Laura Rohe seemed to be continually ill: pneumonia, sinus infections, skin lesions. “I was the sick child” resting ...

A New York family pleads for COVID-19 survivors to donate plasma. The son of a retired New York state investigator hopes the experimental treatment of convalescent plasma will help his father, who has ...

For years, Stéphane Cliche was a healthy avid athlete, but he kept getting sinus and respiratory infections and doctors ...

Some longtime advocates of the therapy say they’re pessimistic about its future. This is a Kaiser Health News story. Six months after it was controversially hailed by Trump administration officials as ...

An infant botulism outbreak has sickened at least 39 babies across the U.S. and underscored the crucial role of a medication ...

Early one Monday morning, after a twelve-hour shift churning out mailing envelopes in a maquiladora—a U.S.-owned factory in Matamoros, Mexico—Carolina stands on tired legs in a line stretching toward ...