NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Giving blood can seem like a mundane task, but the process is anything but ordinary. In an exclusive story, our team followed a donation of platelets from a donor's arm to ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 58-year-old female in reasonably good health. When I was young, I donated blood several times and would have continued to do so, had I not become ineligible due to living in ...

Platelets are tiny cell fragments in your blood that help form clots and stop bleeding. Nearly 50% of donated platelets go to cancer patients. With a shelf life of only five days, hospitals rely on a ...

LIVERPOOL, N.Y. — January is National Blood Donor Month, and there has never been a greater need to donate. The American Red Cross says it is experiencing an emergency blood shortage. Onondaga County ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — A Robins man reached his 1,000th donation for platelets this week at ImpactLife. That’s the most donations anyone has made in the Cedar Rapids area and also the four- state region — ...

Weather-related donor center closures and canceled blood drives have sharply reduced collections at LifeShare Blood Center, ...

Lawrenceville’s Donald Bagley rolled up his sleeves when a friend from church needed help for her husband. And he’s never stopped donating blood platelets, those minuscule cells that play a vital role ...

Winter weather has caused a dramatic drop in blood and platelet donations, straining LifeShare and other blood centers, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new American Red Cross blood donation center in the former Family Video building at North 21st and Church streets in Newark.

In this week's Change Makers, four friends meet up every other month to donate platelets in Boston, a tradition they've been ...