Columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye addresses some of the myths about blood transfusion and explains why it's important in managing ...

The mother who plans to breastfeed her infant feels a loss of autonomy when she is told her 24-week infant with severe ... requires red blood cell transfusion for symptomatic anemia.

Among the immediate complications of transfusion, the most common and serious are intravascular hemolytic transfusion reactions because of ABO incompatibility caused by giving the wrong blood to a ...