Gay men, blood donation and the limits of science.

gave blood recently, and the barrage of questions asked of all donors reminded me that I'd been meaning to write this article since June of last year. At that time, Art Caplan wrote that it's time to let gay men donate blood, but he did not present much solid evidence for that position. As it happens, we can be pretty sure he is in command of considerable evidence, having served as Chair of the HHS Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability for ... Full Story »

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by Dale Penn - Oct. 1, 2008

Discrimination isn't always as easy to detect as it is with the FDA's current ban on gay men from the blood donor pool - as this piece clearly exposes.

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