By Kristin Stankus Her story of blood donation starts like many of our donors’ stories. Thirty years ago, Linda was attending college at the University of Connecticut and there was a blood drive on campus, so she decided to give....
By Kristin Stankus, Digital community and social media specialist Spring is in full swing and many can’t wait to come out of hibernation and get outside to enjoy the fresh air. But before you head out for that hike or...
The Stanford Blood Center (SBC) mission states “We provide hope for the future: teaching tomorrow’s leaders in transfusion medicine, researching to unlock mysteries inherent in blood, and connecting donors to patients every day.” Part of the work SBC does to...
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...
At 2 a.m., Sunday, March 8, night owls and vampires around America will shudder involuntarily when we spring forward for daylight saving time (DST). Morning will roll in an hour early, and for those of us who start work at...
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,...
By Kristin Stankus, Digital community and social media specialist This winter, Stanford Blood Center (SBC) once again partnered with a fantastic local organization as part of our second annual “Give Good” campaign, aimed to help blood donations go further...
Although Stanford Blood Center (SBC) is best known for supplying blood products to hospitals, did you know it is also home to one of the top Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) Histocompatibility laboratories in the country? While our donor centers do...
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)....
By Loren Magaña, Public relations and media specialist On any given night, players from the San Jose Sharks dole out brutal bone crushing body checks to opposing teams in the rink. This often leads to a bloody mess on the...