Episode 114: Is It Ok to Pay People for Their Blood Plasma?
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The Demand for Plasma Medicines
In the United States, we've gone from about 400 plasma centers in the 1980s to 824 this year. China allows the importation of albumin, but no other plasma medicine. India has such a huge population that when information goes all over India, you're going to see a massive increase in the demand for these plasma medicines. The Netherlands is saying, keen, I think it's called, is there like national blood clinic blood center? They have openly mused about paying people for plasma donations.
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