Hospitals in the metro are “closely monitoring” their blood supply after the American Red Cross declared a national blood shortage this week. It’s the first time in 18 months the organization has put out an alert on this scale, warning that the nation’s blood supply is “critically low.” “When we go to the media to […]
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) – The American Red Cross joined forces with a local brewery to fight their recent blood supply shortage. From 9:00 a.m. to noon Wednesday morning, the Red Cross hosted a blood drive at the Brewing Projekt near downtown Eau Claire. Earlier this week, the American Red Cross announced that they are […]
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – The Community Blood Centers of the Ozarks says a nationwide blood shortage is not exactly happening in the Ozarks. The American Red Cross this week asked Americans to roll up their sleeves. The nonprofit organization that supplies about 40% of U.S. blood and blood components is facing a shortage. The Red […]
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Wyoming News Now) – The Cheyenne Police and Fire Departments are hosting their annual Guns N Hoses Blood Drive this month. “This is an annual friendly competition that we do every year to try to raise as many donations as possible. Blood has a very short shelf life and Vitalant sees less donations […]
Albany High School will do its part to help overcome a critical blood shortage nationwide when it holds a blood donation drive on Sept. 27. The drive will be held in the library from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Students, staff and community members are invited to donate at the drive, the first of the three the school will […]
article American Red Cross bloodmobile. (Photo by Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images) According to the Red Cross, which provides roughly 40% of the nation’s blood supply, the critical shortage comes after back-to-back months of “climate-driven disasters” and a nearly 25% drop in donations in August. Hurricane Lee could exacerbate the problem more […]
If you’ve been thinking about donating blood, now is a great time to support your community. With recent climate disasters—many of which have affected the South—paired alongside summer travel and families preparing kids to return to school, blood and platelet donations to the American Red Cross have slowed by “about 30,000” in August alone, the […]
SANTA MARIA, Calif. – Local blood providers are raising concerns as blood supplies are once again reaching critically low levels. Earlier this week, the American Red Cross announced there is a national blood shortage in wake of back-to-back natural disasters and a critical summer shortfall. According to the Red Cross, blood supplies have dropped nearly […]
Powers Fire & Rescue is hosting a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the department’s fire station (1975 Highway 184). Residents are encouraged to donate blood by scheduling a time at Vitalant.org and enter ing blood donation code “powers.” #placement_595033_0_i{margin:0 auto;}
<div data-thumb="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2023/new-method-for-detecti-1.jpg" data-src="https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2023/new-method-for-detecti-1.jpg" data-sub-html="Bessel beam two-photon microscopy can be used to visualize capillaries in the brain. (Left) Maximum intensity projection to observe capillary stalling. (Right) Representative examples of different types of stalling events. Credit: Neurophotonics (2023). DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.10.3.035009″> Bessel beam two-photon microscopy can be used to visualize capillaries in the brain. (Left) Maximum intensity projection […]