Albany Med Among First to Use Experimental Therapy to Treat Coronavirus
April 10, 2020
April 10, 2020
ALBANY, New York, April 10 -- Albany Medical Center, an academic health sciences center, issued the following news release:
Albany Med is among the first hospitals in the country to obtain Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to use convalescent blood plasma therapy to experimentally treat critically ill patients who are infected by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Convalescent plasma therapy--or plasma from a survivor of an infectious disease--was the same trea . . .
Albany Med is among the first hospitals in the country to obtain Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to use convalescent blood plasma therapy to experimentally treat critically ill patients who are infected by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Convalescent plasma therapy--or plasma from a survivor of an infectious disease--was the same trea . . .