Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site osu-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!osu-eddie!mdf From: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: paid donations for blood/plasma Message-ID: <1135@osu-eddie.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Jan-86 18:19:34 EST Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.1135 Posted: Fri Jan 17 18:19:34 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Jan-86 04:45:40 EST References: <194@drutx.UUCP> <195@drutx.UUCP> <713@kitty.UUCP> Reply-To: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman) Organization: StrongPoint Systems, Inc. (guest of Ohio State U.) Lines: 26 In article <713@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes: >> It is ILLEGAL to be paid for your blood. This has been >> effective since the late 1970's. > >In New York State, at least, there are MANY private laboratories which pay >"donors" for whole blood and various components taken through plasmapheresis >[the unused red cells are "put back" in the donor using this technique]. In Ohio and Virginia, a great many students and other folk in great need of money routinely head down to the nearest plasma 'donor' center to get $10 or $15 for a serving of plasma. You can do this twice a week. It is legal. I assume that the law treats being paid for plasma and being paid for whole blood quite differently, but I don't know for sure. -- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mark D. Freeman Guest account at The Ohio State University StrongPoint Systems, Inc. mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP 209 Olentangy Street Mdf@Ohio-State.CSNET Columbus, OH 43202-2340 Mdf%Ohio-State@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA !cbosgd!osu-eddie!mdf I disclaim even my very existance. Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. -- Gary Zukav from "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>