BATS
By Billie Rubin, reporting from the labs of Stanford Blood Center BATS, which stands for British Army Transfusion Service, came to be in the late 1930’s just before WWII started. The purpose of BATS was to bring blood and related...
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#WhyIGiveBlood – Your Responses Part 2
Many blood donors have unique reasons for giving blood. Perhaps a close friend or family member needed a life-saving blood transfusion. Or maybe it’s all about the cookies and POG! We recently asked folks through our Facebook page to share...
Blood Component Functions
By Billie Rubin, reporting from the labs of Stanford Blood Center Each blood component we make has a purpose: • Red Blood Cells – carry oxygen to the tissues in the body and are commonly used in the treatment of...
Café Scientifique, Up Next: Therapy Animals in Medicine: Preparation, Interactions, & Applications in Modern Healthcare
By Robert Higa, Certified Therapy Team Training Instructor, Delta Society Pet Partners, and PAWS (Pet Assisted Wellness @ Stanford) program at Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Robert will be speaking at our upcoming Café Scientifique series...
Getting to Know You
By Deanna Bolio, Communications Specialist, Stanford Blood Center Stanford Blood Center experienced a lot of change at the management level in 2012, including retirements and growing operational needs. This has resulted in quite a few new faces in the halls...
Bubble Girl: Better Screening, Treatments Offer Hope for Kids with Immune Disorder
By Erin Digitale, Staff Writer for the department of Communication & Public Affairs at the Stanford School of Medicine For most of Isabella Messina’s first year of life, people who wanted to see her had to squirt their hands with...
A New Way to Donate Plasma
In January of this year, we discontinued the automated procedure that collected one unit of red blood cells and two units of plasma using the Alyx machine. Later this spring, we will transition...
New HLA Antibody Testing Policy for Female Platelet Donors
TweetWe are so fortunate to have such a devoted, caring community of blood donors. Your generosity helps to save many lives, and we are grateful for your partnership. We also take our responsibility to provide our community with a safe and adequate blood supply seriously, and that is why we need to ask certain platelet donors to help us out in a different, but equally important, way: by donating whole blood instead of platelets.
Vital fluid: What We Know About Blood
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Special report from the Stanford Medicine Magazine
"Blood is a very special juice." Goethe didn't know the half of it when he penned this line for Mephisto more than 200 years ago. In those days people believed blood held mystical qualities and was a potent life force. No wonder Mephisto wants the contract for Faust's soul signed in this "special juice."
Reflecting Back
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By Harpreet Sandhu, SBC Administrator
Last year brought some significant changes for Stanford Blood Center that we can reflect back on with a sense of great accomplishment. Our hard work and collaborative efforts came along with many successes and achievements. We welcomed several new team members including three managers, two directors, one senior operations director, and one assistant medical director. In addition, we opened up a brand new donation center in Menlo Park, taking with us fond memories of our Campus center as we closed its doors.