Houchin Community Blood Bank is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its Oswell donor center. Houchin says that before opening the center, located at 2671 Oswell Street in the East Hills Village Shopping Center, their east-side donors had been telling them that they would like to donate more frequently, but couldn’t due to the crosstown commute […]
Estimated read time: 5-6 minutes SALT LAKE CITY — Multiple members of the LGTBQ community on Wednesday were “extremely excited” to be able to donate blood, and thus save lives in a way that wasn’t available before, Dr. Waseem Anani said. “The queer community has been known to be inclusive, respectful and all about love, […]
CASPER, Wyo. (Wyoming News Now) – The state of Wyoming is experiencing an emergency blood shortage. The demand for blood is high, and without donations patients can face life-threatening consequences. Tori Robbins, the communications manager for Vitalant Blood Donation says, “If the public isn’t donating and we don’t have the blood that we need for […]
Brooke Way discusses Colorado’s blood donation shortage – CBS Colorado Watch CBS News Brooke Way, communication manager with Vitalant, joined CBS News Colorado to discuss the state’s blood donation shortage. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On
ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) – Once again this summer, blood shortages are impacting the American Red Cross’ mission to give back to those in need. Right now, the non-profit organization reports it’s short approximately 50,000 units of blood donations—a concerning trend that could continue to get worse. A year and a half ago, the American Red […]
Colorado football coach Deion Sanders will miss the Pac-12 Conference’s annual football media day on Friday after announcing Wednesday that he will have another surgery to remove blood clots in one of his legs. Sanders made the announcement with a video on YouTube. “I apologize that I’m not going to be at the Pac-12 media […]
BRANDON, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – Rachael Neiman with the Brandon Valley Chamber of Commerce visited Dakota News Now to talk about the blood drive happening on Friday. The battle is a contest between the fire department, law enforcement, and EMS to see who can rally the most donations on their behalf during the blood […]
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – A single blood donation can save up to three lives, and on Wednesday, people in Sioux Falls had an opportunity to contribute. 4.5 million Americans need blood transfusions yearly; one in seven hospital patients will need blood. This is why Siouxland Oral on South Minnesota Avenue hosted a […]
Deion Sanders needs another surgery to remove blood clots, and this one will force the Colorado football coach to miss the Pac-12 Conference’s media day on Friday. “I apologize that I’m not going to be at the Pac-12 media day – to have another surgery tomorrow,” Sanders said Wednesday on his son Deion Jr.’s YouTube […]
During the HIV epidemic of the 1980s, in an effort to protect the blood supply, the FDA permanently deferred blood donations from what they referred to as “men who have sex with men,” or MSM, a group that generally included cisgender men and transgender women. That ban stayed in effect for decades, preventing a portion […]