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Throughout the last month, we’ve reported on how the war in Iran has affected people financially in Massachusetts. As soaring gas prices force some families to sell clothes and jewelry and pull back on spending, selling blood plasma has become another way people say they’re coping with rising costs.
Plasma is a yellow gooey substance in our blood that’s used to create treatments for conditions such as immune deficiencies, severe burns and liver disease. Selling, or “donating” plasma, as the pharmaceutical industry often calls it, involves drawing blood, separating the plasma from the rest of the blood with a special machine, and then pumping the blood back into the donor’s arm…