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National Donor Deferral Registry. The National Donor Deferral Registry, also known as the (NDDR) is a database of individuals who have tested "reactive" for viral agents like human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV), Hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV) and are permanently prohibited from donating plasma. [ 1]
Grifols. Grifols, S.A. ( Catalan: [ˈɡɾifuls]) is a Spanish multinational pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturer. Principally a producer of blood plasma –based products, a field in which it is the European leader and largest worldwide, [ 3][ 4] the company also supplies devices, instruments, and reagents for clinical testing laboratories .
Plasmapheresis (from the Greek πλάσμα, plasma, something molded, and ἀφαίρεσις aphairesis, taking away) is the removal, treatment, and return or exchange of blood plasma or components thereof from and to the blood circulation. It is thus an extracorporeal therapy, a medical procedure performed outside the body. [citation needed]
US$71,103,000 (2019) [2] US$74,828,000 (2018) [3] Website. www.lifesouth.org. LifeSouth Community Blood Centers is a not-for-profit blood bank incorporated in Florida. [4] LifeSouth is headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, and serves over 125 hospitals in Florida, Georgia and Alabama. It has formerly been known as Civitan Regional Blood Centers.
Dr. Grifols pioneered a first-of-its-kind technique called plasmapheresis, [30] where a donor's red blood cells would be returned to the donor's body almost immediately after the separation of the blood plasma. This technique is still in practice today, almost 80 years later. In 1945, Dr. Grifols opened the world's first plasma donation center ...
The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1987 and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that operates the Be The Match Registry of volunteer hematopoietic cell donors and umbilical cord blood units in the United States . The Be The Match Registry is the world's largest hematopoietic cell registry, listing more ...
ChildFund, also known an ChildFund International, and formerly known as Christian Children's Fund, [ 1] is a child-focused international development organization that provides assistance to children facing poverty and other challenges in 24 countries, including the United States. [ 4] ChildFund's headquarters are located in Richmond, Virginia ...
Organ donation. Organ donation is the process when a person authorizes an organ of their own to be removed and transplanted to another person, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive, through a legal authorization for deceased donation made prior to death, or for deceased donations through the authorization by the legal next of kin .