By Julie Ruel, Social Media Manager, Stanford Blood Center
When accessing your online donor account, you now have the option of using a username of your choice, rather than your donor ID number. Creating your username is simple and straightforward here's how it works:
November 29, 2012 11:59 amPublished by Stanford Blood CenterComments Off on New Center Opening in Menlo ParkTweet
By Julie Ruel, Social Media Manager, Stanford Blood Center
Menlo Park, the home of such companies as Facebook, SRI International, and Sunset Magazine, is welcoming Stanford Blood Center to their community. On December 10th, the new center, located at 445 Burgess Drive, will be fully operational.
November 20, 2012 2:01 pmPublished by Stanford Blood CenterComments Off on Feeling Better, But IsolatedTweet
By Dave Emberson, blood recipient
Okay, I will admit to having a bit of a meltdown on a recent Thursday evening when I got the news about having to go the transplant route, but my loving wife got me through it by forcing me to take lots of drugs and go to bed. God bless her.
November 13, 2012 10:06 amPublished by Stanford Blood CenterComments Off on Next Cafe Scientifique: Measuring the Networked NonprofitTweet
Beth Kanter is the author of Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media for Social Change, Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation 2009-2013, and internationally recognized speaker and trainer. She is co-author of the highly acclaimed book, The Networked Nonprofit, published by Wiley in 2010, with Allison Fine and the recently published, "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit," with co-author KD Paine.
Beth will be speaking at our next Cafe Scientifique on Thursday, November 15th.
I'm thrilled to announce the publication of my second book, "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World," with co-author and measurement goddess KD Paine. The book is about how nonprofits can measure and improve results from leveraging their networks. The frameworks and tips we outlined were field tested in real-time as part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation with 60 of their grantees who participated in a peer learning/focus group and contributed many of the case studies.
November 8, 2012 9:54 amPublished by Stanford Blood CenterComments Off on Ask Stanford Med: Answers to your questions about seasonal influenzaTweet
By Lia Steakley, Writer for Stanford School of Medicine's Communications & Public Affairs Department
This article was adapted from material provided by the Stanford University School of Medicine. Click here to be taken to the original article.
The image above may look like a piece of abstract art, but it actually depicts influenza A. One of the three flu virus types responsible for the fatigue, fever and other symptoms that plague many of us from October to May, influenza A can infect people, birds and other animals.
While the 2011 influenza season was especially mild, that may not be the case this year. To help you and your family prepare for the flu season, we asked Corry Dekker, MD, medical director of the Stanford-Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Vaccine Program, to respond to your questions about the flu and vaccine research.
November 6, 2012 10:47 amPublished by Stanford Blood CenterComments Off on Don’t forget to cast your ballottas todayTweet
By Billie Rubin, Hemoglobin's Catabolic Cousin, reporting from the labs of Stanford Blood Center
Ballot comes from the Italian word, ballotta or little colored ball. Several hundred years ago, ballottas were used to cast votes (if their candidates did not win, did they throw the balls at each other?). Each voter would drop either a white ball (in favor of the candidate) or a black ball (opposing the candidate) into the ballot box. Paper ballots were first used in North America in 1629 and later became widespread.
By Billie Rubin, Hemoglobin's Catabolic Cousin, reporting from the labs of Stanford Blood Center
Vampire bats feed on the blood of other creatures, a hematophagy diet. There are three bat species whose only source of nutrition is blood: the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus), the hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudata), and the white-winged vampire bat.
By Jennifer Boyer, Staff Writer, American Association of Blood Banks
Blood products and pop culture are an unlikely combination. Yet blood products have found their way into pop culture consciousness in recent years from celebrities publicly supporting blood-related causes to the vampire and zombie crazes. They are even impacting lifestyle choices such as diet, exercise and dating.
By Tim Donald, Contributing Writer, American Association of Blood Banks
Roxanne and Mark decide to donate blood. While they are sitting together in an open waiting room, a nurse asks Roxanne questions about her sexual history and number of partners loud enough for all to hear. They are told their blood will be tested to see whether it is "clean" enough to be used. They spend a sitcom eternity waiting anxiously for the results to learn whether they have any sexually transmitted diseases, or STDs. In the end, someone from the clinic calls each partner to tell them that they do not have STDs. (Source: Whitney, Season 1, Episode 12, "Faking It")
By Billie Rubin, Hemoglobin's Catabolic Cousin, reporting from the labs of Stanford Blood Center
The term "buffy coat" might make you think of a shiny car wax, but in the world of blood banking, buffy coat refers to the white layer between red blood cells and plasma in a unit of whole blood after it has been spun down in a centrifuge. The buffy coat contains white blood cells, the soldiers of the immune system.
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