STANFORD, Calif. – With National Volunteer Blood Donor Month lasting through January, Stanford Blood Center has joined forces with the American Association of Blood Banks to urge every eligible person to donate. Throughout the first month of the year, new...
STANFORD, Calif. – The need for blood is more important than ever as the Stanford Blood Center welcomes two preeminent cardiac surgeons to the School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Frank L. Hanley, MD, professor of surgery and...
New guidelines regarding travel to the United Kingdom and Europe are a result of the Food and Drug Administrations (FDA) desire to further decrease the possibility that the agent that causes Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, or “Mad Cow Disease”) could...
New guidelines issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will be implemented in two phases to help prevent blood shortages. This is in an effort to decrease the possibility that vCJD, the human form of “Mad Cow Disease,”...
STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford Blood Center has created a new donor club to help prevent the blood shortages that may occur when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations on travel and residency defer many donors. The “Traveler’s Club”...
STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford Blood Center, along with blood centers throughout the U.S., will be further tightening donor restrictions related to residence in the United Kingdom (U.K.) and Europe. New guidelines issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
STANFORD, Calif. – The Stanford Blood Center has launched a campaign to encourage donations during the holiday period when the need for blood often increases and supplies diminish. In the campaign, new flags showing Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital patient Xitlali...
STANFORD, Calif. – The Stanford Blood Center is critically low in type-O blood at a time when demand is high, and is urging area residents to donate blood before the holidays. Among the local patients currently in need of type-O...