The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates plasma donations, doesn’t prohibit undocumented immigrants from ...

Blood plasma is big business — especially along the U.S.–Mexico border. Every day, thousands of Mexican citizens cross ...

As more people are caught in the economic squeeze of a rising cost of living, many are looking for ways to make extra money. A growing number are turning to selling their blood plasma — an essential ...

Donating money isn’t the only way you can help people. You can also give your blood.

Early one Monday morning, after a twelve-hour shift churning out mailing envelopes in a maquiladora—a U.S.-owned factory in Matamoros, Mexico—Carolina stands on tired legs in a line stretching toward ...

Jul. 20—The largest independent blood-plasma donation center operator in the country has opened its newest location in Anniston. ImmunoTek Plasma, a subsidiary of ImmunoTek Bio Centers, opened the ...

I used to think plasma donation was just about sitting in a chair for an hour, maybe earning some extra cash while helping people. Boy, was I wrong. There’s this whole wild process happening inside ...

While you've heard about squeezing blood from a stone, what about taxes from a plasma donation? Donating plasma requires drawing and separating whole blood into liquid (or plasma) and red blood cells, ...

Of the approximately 62 percent of Americans eligible to donate blood, only 3 percent do so each year. But someone needs ...

Odds are you’ve been asked to donate blood before — maybe even from us at The Star recently, as we prepare for a blood drive on Tuesday. And you’ve maybe heard the request for donations even more over ...