Also known as blood plasma, it makes up about 55% of your blood and has a light yellow color. When you donate blood, the plasma can be separated out and put into another person’s bloodstream.

Donating plasma can cause common but usually minor side effects like dehydration and fatigue. Serious side effects may occur, but these are rare. Donating does a lot of good. Blood plasma is ...

Donating plasma is an important, voluntary act that can help save lives. Like donated blood, your plasma is used in trauma situations in hospitals to help those in need. Plasma helps to stop ...

A global program to test whether blood plasma from recovered coronavirus patients can be used as a treatment got underway in the United States on Saturday but it needs blood donations to succeed.