When most people think about making an appointment at Stanford Blood Center (SBC), they think of coming in to donate whole blood, the most common type of donation. Less common, but needed just as much, is platelet donation through apheresis...
You: Kind eyes, huge heart, and friendly smile, wearing a red t-shirt, with awesome hemoglobin counts. You rode here on the Marguerite. Even though it was your first time saving lives with us, you were a natural … and we...
No one wants to be sick, especially with seasonal influenza (the “flu”). That achy, feverish feeling that keeps you in bed for a week is no fun. In addition to making people feel icky, the flu also has a significant...
Summer shortages affect blood centers around the world, but blood centers in the predominantly Muslim world face an even greater challenge during Ramadan, the holy month of fasting, introspection and prayer. Ramadan, which literally means scorching in Arabic, is...
The Bay Area has incredibly generous high school kids: A whopping 15 percent of Stanford Blood Center’s blood donations come from students—and 90-95 percent are high school students participating in mobile blood drives. When all those caring kids go on...
Did you know that if you travel to a malarial risk zone, you might be deferred from donating blood even if you aren’t ill? That’s because donors can be infected and symptom free and still transmit malaria through a blood...
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...
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,...
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...
Brought to you by the letters S, B, C At Stanford Blood Center (SBC), staff are often referred to as vampires; an accurate description in a sense! So this Halloween, in honor of one purple, number-loving, friendly vampire, here are...