video: UW researchers have created a novel system that can measure platelet function within two minutes and can help doctors determine which trauma patients might need a blood transfusion upon being ...

A new method for treating and chilling blood platelets may prolong their shelf-life by a week or more, helping to ease chronic shortages that endanger patients needing platelet transfusions. These ...

A recently described hemorrhagic disorder characterized by defective platelet aggregation induced by collagen and epinephrine appears to be caused, in part, by the same abnormality induced by aspirin ...