On Dec. 21, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) changed its recommendation that men who have sex with men be indefinitely deferred from donating blood; the new time frame is a deferral period of 12 months since the last sexual contact with another man. Read more.
FDA changes blood donation policy
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