PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- It's a sight that is giving hope to many across the country, COVID-19 patients leaving the hospital after recovering from the virus.While there is no known cure for the illness, two New Jersey patients are recovering thanks in part to an experimental treatment of convalescent plasma from a patient who also recovered…
The race continues to develop treatments for patients battling COVID-19. One of them is called convalescent plasma therapy. It involves taking plasma from donors who have recovered from the novel coronavirus and giving it to those who are critically ill. KCRA 3's Stephanie Lin talked with Dr. Jonathan Hughes, medical director of Vitalant, to learn…
April 24, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ETA medical procedure doctors have used to treat novel diseases for a century has emerged as a focal point in the fight against Covid-19: convalescent plasma.Conva-what-now…?Convalescent plasma is the term used for plasma that is removed from the blood of a person who has recovered from a disease, then transfused…
Doctors say an experimental treatment using blood plasma does work and helped save the life of a coronavirus patient near death.The male patient had been on a ventilator at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, and was only getting worse.The hospital had just received its first batch of blood plasma from a recovered coronavirus…
PTI, Bengaluru, Apr 24 2020, 18:25 ist updated: Apr 24 2020, 18:28 ist Karnataka is likely to start Convalescent Plasma Therapy for COVID-19 patients, who are critical, from tomorrow, Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar said here on on Friday. "We have already got approval for Convalescent Plasma Therapy. Follow latest updates on the COVID-19 pandemic…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…