Mayo Clinic uses about 50,000 units of blood a year, and needs to collect about 100 units a day — whole blood can be separated into multiple uses, so those 100 a day might be more uses than 100.

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Mayo Clinic has announced a new, non-invasive blood test that detects a protein in the brain that signals Alzheimer’s. Doctors discuss how it offers a convenient, less invasive diagnostic ...

Of the patients tested, blood biomarkers positively identified Alzheimer's in 267 individuals. Specifically, 233 out of 246 patients with Alzheimer’s-related cognitive impairment (95%) had ...

If you’ve been turned down from donating blood in the past, you may be able to roll up your sleeves now. Mayo Clinic announced this week it will start accepting people who had been deferred from ...

New changes at Mayo Clinic will allow more people to donate blood. This week, the renowned health system updated its guidelines to make anyone who spent significant time in Europe during the 1980s ...

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