Newly updated, trusted resources Two chapters in Canadian Blood Services’ Clinical Guide to Transfusion were recently updated to provide health-care providers with the latest guidance on treating patients with hemostatic disorders, like hemophilia, and hereditary angioedema, a disorder that causes severe swelling in different parts of the body. For all of these disorders, treatment may involve transfusion. Hemostatic disorders include a range of diagnoses that are characterized by problems in the body’s normal responses to bleeding (the term “haemostasis” is derived from the Greek words ‘haemo

Canadian Blood Services is committed to making blood donation as inclusive as possible while maintaining the safety of the blood supply. To this end, by September 30, 2022, we will be removing the current three-month time-based deferral specific to men who have sex with men and will implement sexual behaviour-based screening criteria for all donors, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, for all blood collection types. This change was made possible by a successful submission to our regulator, Health Canada, built on a solid bedrock of Canadian and international research. Among the