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    Australia's 'Man With The Golden Arm' Retires After Saving 2.4 Million Babies

    James Harrison, 81, has a rare antibody that can help treat a condition affecting pregnant women. He's donated plasma 1,173 times. But now he's aged out of the donation program.
    by Camila Domonoske May 14, 2018 2 minutes
    James Harrison, known as "the man with the golden arm," is pictured in 2003, when he was recognized for the number of times he had donated blood. At the time it was his 808th donation. The Australian man has now donated well over 1,000 times.

    James Harrison, an Australian man whose blood contains a rare antibody that can create a treatment that saves babies' lives, has donated plasma one last time.

    Harrison, 81, is now over the age limit for donors — in fact, he hit the cap months ago.

    But the Australian Red Cross Blood Service let him donate on Friday. The service estimates that over the course of his

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