July 8, 2015 10:03 am
Published by Kristin Garcia | Digital Marketing Project Manager
July is National Cord Blood Month, so what better time to learn more about this precious resource that is used in thousands of “hematopoietic stem cell transplantation” procedures each year? What is cord blood? When a baby is born, the...
June 17, 2015 1:07 pm
Published by Kristin Garcia | Digital Marketing Project Manager
Did you know there are more than 70 million fathers in the United States (History.com)? Imagine the impact if, for each of these men, one person donated blood in their honor. Blood centers would have all of the blood products...
May 27, 2015 3:54 pm
Published by Kristin Garcia | Digital Marketing Project Manager
On June 10, 2014, after a long and complicated labor, baby Alma’s journey began. Her entrance into the world was not an easy one. Nearing the end of mother Amy’s pregnancy, doctors expressed concerns that the baby had stopped growing...
March 18, 2015 11:20 am
Published by Kristin Garcia | Digital Marketing Project Manager
Spring-cleaning, that wonderful time of year when the cold of winter transitions to warmer weather and people across the world clean their homes from top to bottom. This is often the time of year where the serious cleaning and...
March 4, 2015 9:35 am
Published by Kristin Garcia | Digital Marketing Project Manager
As of February 26, 2015, Stanford Blood Center (SBC) implemented a slight change to the blood donation screening process. Staff is asking all donors to select his/her ethnicity from a new list of ethnic codes. If you are a repeat donor,...
February 4, 2015 2:25 pm
Published by Kristin Garcia | Digital Marketing Project Manager
Aria is a lively 17-month-old with an infectious smile. One would never guess that she was born an anemic preemie who spent the first month of her life in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (LPCH)....
January 21, 2015 10:37 am
Published by Kristin Garcia | Digital Marketing Project Manager
Today we bring you the story of one of our donors, Aly. Her journey of love, loss and perseverance led Aly to become a donor with Stanford Blood Center (SBC). Aly donated blood for the first time when she was...
January 14, 2015 9:30 am
Published by Kristin Garcia | Digital Marketing Project Manager
Please note, there may be more current information available related to iron and blood donation. Visit our Iron and Blood Donation page for more. Have you ever walked in to Stanford Blood Center ready to do a good deed and donate...