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Briefs: blood drives, Goodwill classes
Galesburg Register-Mail Red Cross announces blood drive dates. GALESBURG — The American Red Cross will have blood drives at the following times and locations: Sept. 2 — 2 to 6 p.m., Alexis Community Center, 204 W. Palmer Avenue, Alexis. Sept. 8 — 2 to 6 p.m., Galesburg … |
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Red Cross partners with 9/11 Day to provide blood donation opportunities
Lynchburg News and Advance Blood donors of all types — especially those with types AB, O negative, A negative and B negative — and platelet donors are encouraged to give. Type O negative is the universal blood type that can be transfused to patients of any blood type. It is … |
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NCDs ‘affecting blood drives‘
Fiji Times THE burden of non-communicable diseases is hampering blood collection efforts, with a drive in Ba last week reporting that 11 people were turned away because they were afflicted with some form of NCD. According to the Fiji National Blood Services west … |
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Blood donation camp in Jayapur: Event cancelled day after pradhan says won’t …
The Indian Express A blood donation camp organised by local businessman Nilesh Singh in Jayapur — the adopted village of Varanasi MP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi — had run into trouble after its pradhan, Durgawati Devi, decided not to attend the event reportedly … Blood donation camp in Varanasi cancelledBusiness Standard Joshi’s Jayapur visit called offTimes of India |
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Cost of pensions threatens blood transfusion service
Irish Times “Our studies have shown that hepatitis E virus is present in about 1 in 5000 healthy donors. At the end of the year we requested additional support from the Department of Health to fund screening of blood donors for this virus in the future,” said Dr … |
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Make blood–donation rules fair for gay men
Brandon Sun Canada’s sordid, tragic experience with blood-transfused diseases — HIV and hepatitis, specifically — has made the agency that collects blood overly cautious on who it will accept donations from. Its policy on how to treat potential donations from … |
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Minster shop manager Andrzej Rygielski delighted with blood donation reaction
Kent Online A shop manager who kickstarted a blood–donation drive for Polish immigrants says the response has been “fantastic”. We previously reported how Andrzej Rygielski, who moved to Minster from Poland 10 years ago, came up with the idea as an act against … |
The ColumbianBlood supply gets boostThe ColumbianWith the number of blood donations dwindling nationwide and locally, officials with the nonprofit Bloodworks Northwest needed a way to tell people about the need for donors. The group shared its problem …
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In Sweden, give blood and get a text
Toronto Star That’s exactly the response the Stockholm blood service was hoping for when it launched the pioneering initiative three years ago in an effort to raise blood donation awareness in a country where about five per cent of the population (410,000 people … |
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328 blood donors honoured at Phagwara
Chandigarh Tribune A blood donation camp was organised by the Hindustan Blood Donor’s Club at Phagwara in which CPS Som Prakash was the chief guest. On the 21st annual blood donation camp held by the organisation, as many as 328 blood donors were honoured. |