For close to 36 years, Bill Derbyshire has been a regular at the Canadian Blood Services Clinic on Grand Marais. On Saturday when Derbyshire, 64, of LaSalle, walks through the doors to the clinic it will mark his 200th blood donation. “You give four or five times a year and …

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It started out as just another normal day for the Bryan family of Vienna as they enjoyed spending time with their beautiful 1-year-old daughter, Audrey Bryan. But, it wasn’t long before they realized that this day would soon become the beginning of a nightmare. “She was this happy, healthy baby, …

LAST weekend, a group of us from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun Ipoh, which consists of nurses and doctors, and our family members had the honour of taking part in a blood donation drive. The event was co-organised by our hospital and the Perak …

Tanya Saker suffered from a major haemorrhage nine hours after her son Joe was born. She said: “I was rushed back into theatre under general anaesthetic to see if they could stop the bleeding, but unfortunately they couldn’t. “From there, I was taken from St Michael’s Hospital to the BRI …

Local government officials from a town in the northern Philippines had a little too much fun on a recent blood drive. They put on their capes and fake fangs in a “Transylvania-inspired” blood donation drive on Wednesday. Led by Mayor Ramon Guico III, the “vampires” checked on donors who participated in the activity …

An Ahwatukee toddler with a rare disease has become a poster child of sorts for an agency’s effort to get Valley residents to donate blood. United Blood Services recently featured Adelyn Troutman’s plight in its ongoing campaign even as the little girl, who won’t turn 2 until November, encountered a …

When twins Noah and Oliver Jewitt were born prematurely, blood transfusions played a vital part in their fight for life. Two years later, their mum Rebecca Jewitt has spoken out to encourage people to become donors as part of National Blood Week. “They wouldn’t be here if they didn’t have …

I was three months old when I had my first blood transfusion. Since then, I’ve been receiving blood transfusions about every 20 days. I’m 40 years old now, a novelist and a blogger. I wouldn’t have come this far had it not been for the heroes whose donated blood made …

After receiving hundreds of units of blood and undergoing a bone marrow transplant, 25-year-old cancer survivor John Brent knows how important it is for people to donate blood. But Monday night he didn’t have to tell that to the crowd at the Canadian Blood Services event to honour life-long donors. …