Daily Dose: International Plasma Awareness Week, flu season and kids' vaccines and why we love Halloween

This is International Plasma Awareness Week, a reminder that a simple donation can change someone's everyday life. Donated plasma helps make medicines for people whose immune systems can't protect them, including people living with primary immunodeficiency disease.

For many of those patients, plasma-derived treatment is ongoing, not a one-time fix. Christy Savino, who lives with primary immunodeficiency, says a missed dose quickly brings back ear and sinus infections. Within a few months, she feels drained and unable to take part in life the way she ...