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Mar 16, 2018
PPTA Statement on “How Blood-Plasma Companies Target the Poorest Americans”
The article, “How Blood-Plasma Companies Target the Poorest Americans,” by H. Luke Shaefer and Analidis Ochoa, published in The Atlantic on March 15, was unfair to plasma donors as well as to individuals living with rare, genetic, and chronic diseases who rely on access to plasma protein therapies. Plasma donors are due our gratitude and respect, not sweeping negative characterizations.
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Mar 16, 2018
PPTA Statement on “How Blood-Plasma Companies Target the Poorest Americans”
The article, “How Blood-Plasma Companies Target the Poorest Americans,” by H. Luke Shaefer and Analidis Ochoa, published in The Atlantic on March 15, was unfair to plasma donors as well as to individuals living with rare, genetic, and chronic diseases who rely on access to plasma protein therapies. Plasma donors are due our gratitude and respect, not sweeping negative characterizations.
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May 16, 2017
Plasma protein product safety and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
A recent publication in the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal (published online on June 12, 2017) describes two individuals with bleeding disorders who were diagnosed with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) (1). The authors of this scientific report have not established a causal link between the treatment with clotting factors and the development of sporadic CJD and concluded that “the occurrence of these cases may simply reflect a chance event in the context of systematic surveillance for CJD in large populations”.
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May 16, 2017
Plasma protein product safety and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
A recent publication in the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal (published online on June 12, 2017) describes two individuals with bleeding disorders who were diagnosed with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) (1). The authors of this scientific report have not established a causal link between the treatment with clotting factors and the development of sporadic CJD and concluded that “the occurrence of these cases may simply reflect a chance event in the context of systematic surveillance for CJD in large populations”.
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Oct 3, 2016
Zika Virus and Plasma Protein Therapies
Recent scientific and public press reports have heightened awareness of the emergence of Zika virus (ZIKV) in the Americas and the causal relationship between prenatal ZIKV infection and microcephaly and other severe fetal brain defects.
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Oct 3, 2016
Zika Virus and Plasma Protein Therapies
Recent scientific and public press reports have heightened awareness of the emergence of Zika virus (ZIKV) in the Americas and the causal relationship between prenatal ZIKV infection and microcephaly and other severe fetal brain defects.
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Apr 22, 2015
Alabama Lowers Minimum Donation Age to 18
PPTA would like to recognize Alabama for demonstrating the important role source plasma plays in saving and improving patients’ lives.
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Apr 22, 2015
Alabama Lowers Minimum Donation Age to 18
PPTA would like to recognize Alabama for demonstrating the important role source plasma plays in saving and improving patients’ lives.
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