Blood transfusions help prevent serious complications from sickle cell disease, and people are rolling up their sleeves in ...

The UAB Hospital’s Transfusion Services, or Blood Bank, is the largest of the clinical laboratories with 40+ employees working under Lakecia Watkins, laboratory supervisor. They staff the main ...

Douglas Morton, the San Diego Blood Bank's chief executive officer, said that every pint donated "is a story of compassion." ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I recently donated blood to our local blood bank, which I have done many times in the past. Three weeks later, I received a letter stating that my blood was not accepted, and would ...

Bernard Fantus coined the term "blood bank" (and opened the world's first) in 1937. Smithsonian Institution Archives The problem of getting blood to patients who need it took a step towards being ...

The Central Pennsylvania Blood Bank is in desperate need of donors in light of the Labor Day weekend and six major blood transfusions that have cut into supply. The midstate experienced blood ...

HONOLULU (KITV4) - Hawaii Blood Bank currently has just one-day supply of the universal donor or O-blood which is supposed to be used only for emergencies. According to the organization, most of the ...