By Deanna Bolio, Communications Specialist Representatives from Stanford Blood Center were honored to be invited to the Stanford Hospital Bone Marrow Transplant Reunion held Saturday, July 27. This life-affirming event, held on the lawn in front of the Li Ka...
With war and bloodshed inescapable in many places around the world, the French artist Hady Sy considers art his weapon. His “One Blood” exhibit carries a powerful message about the ability to save lives through donating blood — a concept...
By Billie Rubin, reporting from the labs of Stanford Blood Center According to the Coalition for Plasma Science, “Plasma is often called the ‘Fourth State of Matter’, the other three being solid, liquid and gas. A plasma is a distinct...
By Peter Garrison This piece was originally published in the Los Angeles Times on June 29, 2013. I saved a man’s life. It feels odd to utter that sentence. It sounds like a request for admiration or at the very least...
By Dayna Kerecman Myers As news of the Asiana plane crash on July 6 at San Francisco International Airport trickled in, we began hearing from blood donors asking if they could help. Their offers were well timed. Stanford Blood Center...
By Sara Wykes, Staff Writer for the department of Communications & Public Affairs at the Stanford School of Medicine Brian Grone, PhD, has brains and brawn: He can tell you how acute light exposure suppresses circadian...
(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...
By Winter Johnson, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Michele Hyndman, Stanford Blood Center A month before her 14th birthday in November 2011, Taylor was enjoying a normal teenage life in Watsonville, Calif., when she was hit with sudden, flu-like symptoms that turned into vomiting blood. She was...
By Billie Rubin, reporting from the labs of Stanford Blood Center There are skinny, spidery vessels in all of our tissues that connect the arteries with the veins in our circulatory system. The arteries are big muscle vessels that carry...
By Dayna Kerecman Myers With their altruistic donations, the Buddhist monks in the photo above are helping Cambodia strengthen its system of voluntary blood donors. They embody the spirit of World Blood Donor Day, celebrated every June 14 to encourage...