He drains his veins about as often as many of us fill our cars’ gas tanks, and he’s been doing it longer than most of us have been driving. “Every other Thursday, I come to the blood bank,” Carroll Sharp of Jacksonville began, “I started donating in the 1960s. It was …

A little bit of blood can go a long way, especially in the life of a child with cancer. That is the message from Canadian Blood Services for the month of September, which is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. “It’s important for us to focus on supporting children because we know …

Trailyn Evans did not plan her birthday party based on prophetic omens, but its timing is proving fortuitous. Trailyn’s 17th birthday party blood drive Saturday will increase supplies of blood products needed in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Trailyn has been giving blood for about a year, according to her …

Drop by drop and pint by pint, it all adds up, and every drop matters. That’s the attitude of Lake Oswego resident Carrie Brunner as she approaches the milestone of donating 23 gallons of blood during her lifetime. Brunner achieved that lofty goal Aug. 18 at a blood drive at …

Stephanie MacWilliams didn’t think much about blood donation until she woke up one day in the intensive care unit from complications during a C-section. “This is my first major health crisis. I have not needed blood before,” the Langley resident said. “I’ve always known there was a need of blood …

One Arizona family calls the Phoenix Children’s Hospital their second home. That’s because every month, they have to drive to the hospital from Casa Grande, so their 3-year-old son can be given a life-saving blood transfusion. Nathan Johnson has an extremely rare blood disease. His family said it is so rare, that only …

THEY’RE Ridgehaven’s very own blood brothers. The Pelican Plaza blood donor centre was the focal point of a record-breaking effort last week. Davoren Park man Erhard Wilhelm opened his veins for the 550th time on August 16, breaking the state record for donations. And that effort was almost matched by …

A four-year-old boy from Mansfield has decided to raise money for Nottingham’s Hospitals Charity who helped him and his sister after they were born prematurely. Both Finlay and his two-year-old sister, Darcie, were born prematurely because their mum, Nicola, has a rare condition called Rhesus Disease. The condition means that …

There’s really no need to be squeamish, after all it’s the stuff that gives us life! Our bodies and the blood inside them are truly AMAZING. Who would have guessed that all the blood in our body travels 60,000 miles per day throughout our body and there’s about 1 billion …