A message from our administrator
As we are getting settled into 2014, I’d like to take a moment to thank our staff, volunteers, and blood donors for a wonderful past year. 2013 was an extremely busy year, but also a very productive one. Because...
Tag Archive: blood donation
Mending Hearts
Chris’s yearly family trip to Disneyland in February of 2012 took him far from the happiest place on earth as he found himself, instead, in the hospital. After experiencing nausea, shortness of breath, and difficulty walking distances, Chris was eventually...
The Beat Goes On
By Deanna Bolio, Communications Specialist, Stanford Blood Center Lexi loves to dance. From hip-hop to ballet, she loves it so much that she might take up to 13 dance classes in a week. The ongoing blood transfusions Lexi receives to...
Critical Blood Shortage: All Types Needed
By Julie Peachey We need your help. Our inventory for all blood types is critically low, due to increased usage. This past weekend alone, we provided blood for five patients, including two for aortic aneurisms. We are now rationing our...
Rivals for Life: SBC racks up another win
By Deanna Bolio There are lots of traditions at Stanford Blood Center — the Sharks Foundation blood drive each hockey season, Grateful Life Tour tie-dye t-shirts every summer, and the Rivals for Life blood drive competition each fall are just...
Giving is in their blood
By Dayna Kerecman Myers Usually, Stanford Blood Center (SBC) can count on the NASA Ames Research Center to host blood drives five times per year. This year, thanks to the government shutdown that furloughed 1,000 Ames employees, there will only...
The volunteer spirit
By Dayna Kerecman Myers When Ruth Storek finished donating blood at Stanford Blood Center (SBC) one day, she looked down at the table in the canteen and noticed an appeal for volunteers printed...
Blood donation and iron
Please note, there may be more current information available related to iron and blood donation. Visit our Iron and Blood Donation page for more. Eating a healthy diet is important for anyone, especially blood donors. But we want to make sure...
#WhyIGiveBlood – Your Responses
(Comments from FB post on 2/8) Many blood donors have unique reasons for giving blood. Perhaps a close friend or family member needed a life-saving blood transfusion. Or maybe it’s all about the cookies and POG! We recently asked folks...
BATS
By Billie Rubin, reporting from the labs of Stanford Blood Center BATS, which stands for British Army Transfusion Service, came to be in the late 1930’s just before WWII started. The purpose of BATS was to bring blood and related...