When out in the community, we often receive questions from potential donors who aren’t sure if they are eligible to donate blood. Because blood donation is so important to support patients, and Stanford Blood Center needs new donors all the...
Buddies make everything better. Good childhood memories usually include using the buddy system, don’t they? Field trips, swimming pools; for safety and fun, nothing beats buddies. Good news: you can still use a buddy! Blood donations are a good excuse...
Please note, there may be more current information available related to iron and blood donation. Visit our Iron and Blood Donation page for more. Yesterday (Wednesday, March 8) was International Women’s Day, which of course got us thinking about our stellar...
On Saturday, 2/18, Stanford Blood Center (SBC) was out in the community supporting The Super Run, a national event coordinated by Superfly Running, Inc. The Super Run is a national series of 5k running events that partner with non-profit organizations...
In addition to providing blood products to use for transfusion and transplants, Stanford Blood Center (SBC) also collects blood products that play a major role in advancing medicine through research. We took a look at the journey blood products take...
Each winter as part of our Give Good campaign, we partner with a different community organization to double the impact of each blood donation. Patients and their families benefit from blood donations, and others in our community that need support...
The adventure began soon after their meeting. Carmela and Eric Gries met in 1984 while attending college. Not long after they met and became a couple, they decided to take a year off from school to drive across the country...
Pediatric cancer is not rare, despite what many may think. In fact, each year approximately 15,780 children between the ages of birth and 19 years of age are diagnosed with cancer in the United States; that’s 1 in 285 children. Around...
This Saturday, February 4, is World Cancer Day – an annual global event that aims to unite the world against cancer. Its goal is to raise awareness of the devastating disease, educating the global population “while pressing governments and individuals...
On Saturday, January 21st, SBC teamed up with the San Jose Sharks for the 11th Annual Sharks Foundation Save a Life Blood Drive. The drive was a smashing success – we collected 254 units of blood, and even had 41...