American Red Cross urges people to donate blood amid dire shortage
The American Red Cross is urging people to donate blood this summer amid an emergency blood shortage. Health reporter Stephanie Stahl has the latest.
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The American Red Cross is urging people to donate blood this summer amid an emergency blood shortage. Health reporter Stephanie Stahl has the latest.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill is urging people to donate blood ahead of the summer months.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill is urging people to donate blood amid a supply emergency. More blood is needed in the summer months, when donations typically drop, experts say.
New Jersey has less than a one-week supply of red blood cells and less than a day's supply of platelets, health officials say.
Blood donation centers across the Philadelphia region are urging healthy donors to step forward after several factors stifled donations.
The Big Ten conference is getting college students involved in the fight to ease the nation's critical blood shortage.
Dogs and cats can donate blood to help save the lives of other pets. It's a quick, simple process.
The Big Ten Football Conference is hoping to give a big boost to lagging blood donations with a nationwide donation competition.
Lagging blood donations could be getting a big boost from the Big Ten football conference. Stephanie Stahl explains this new multi-university campaign.
This week, the CBS NEXT Weather Network had team coverage of snow and fridge temperatures and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. events around the city.
A blood drive Monday at the Church of St. Bridget gathered donations for people with sickle cell disease.
The CEO of the American Red Cross of Southeastern Pennsylvania called the nation's blood shortage declaration an "interesting perfect storm."
Blood supply in the U.S. has fallen to critically low levels, with the amount of people donating at its lowest number n 20 years.
Blood donors are needed now more than ever as the Red Cross is facing an emergency shortage.
Dunkin' and the American Red Cross are teaming up to encourage people to give blood in January, when stores typically dip. Donors can receive a voucher from Dunkin' when they donate this month.
There's hope the chance to win a big prize will get more people in drives like the one on Thursday at Ambler Borough Gym.
In this season of giving, the American Red Cross is asking Americans to consider donating something that could be life-saving.
Blood supplies traditionally run low during the holidays. Now, the American Red Cross is hoping people will make giving blood a holiday habit.
Now 76 years old, former Philadelphia teacher Marc Satalof has donated 35 gallons of blood throughout his lifetime.
Marc Satalof has been a regular donor for more than 50 years.
The American Red Cross is sounding the alarm that the United States' blood supply has fallen by nearly 25% since early August, to what it describes as "critically low levels."
The Red Cross has officially adopted updated rules from the FDA that will allow more gay men to donate blood.
The American Red Cross held a blood drive Wednesday after falling short of donations this summer
Blood donation centers are trying to attract a new generation of blood donors by distracting them during their life-saving donations with mixed reality glasses.
Blood donation centers are trying to attract a new generation of blood donors by distracting them during their life-saving donations with mixed reality glasses.
