Baden teen with brain tumour joins the #areyoumytype campaign

Zach Hart is not letting a malignant brain tumour hold him back from helping others. The 17-year-old from Baden was diagnosed last August and had to go through three surgeries in just over three weeks. “I was afraid because we didn’t know what was ahead of us,” said Hart. The …
Family, friends, and teachers are banding together to help a family in need after a young man with autism is diagnosed with cancer. A blood drive benefit is being held on New Year’s Eve in Mobile in honor of an 18-year-old who just started battling Leukemia. Skevos Karavokiros, better known …
As he closes in on his 70th birthday, Fred Muzin will be giving blood for the 200th time at a donation event, Thursday at the Florence Filberg Centre. The Courtenay resident started donating blood in 1968 when he was a freshman in university. “My first donation was at McGill (Montreal),” …
Here are four beaming children – none of whom would be alive today if a stranger had not given blood. Each of their lives was saved by a transfusion, yet many of us never find the time to sign up to become a donor. Read Full Article
Imperial Valley is being called upon to help one of its own. Longtime Valley resident Joshua Holmes, 30, has been battling a rare form of cancer for the past three years, and, after recent treatment, is in need of blood. Read Full Article
Our annual Community Heroes Blood Drive is coming up this Friday and Saturday at the Rushmore Mall. And there are few gifts you can give more valuable than the gift of blood. And no one knows that better than Katura Neal of Rapid City. It’s a calm look back through …
Taylor and Jennifer Urban, Pittsburgh locals, have been donating blood together since they were in high school. Taylor started donating at her high school’s blood drives when she was 16. Her first blood donation went well, and Taylor became a regular blood donor. At the time, Jennifer wanted to follow …
Every two seconds, someone in the country needs blood. Yet only 10% of Americans donate. Blood that gave a critically-ill, 4-year-old here in the Lowcountry, a fighting chance. In a flash, on one summer day in 2018, then 4 -year-old Dakota Blevins’ health took a turn, for the worse. Read …
On October 13, 2019, a young girls life was changed. 12 year-old Ellie Thornton was diagnosed with severe Aplastic Anemia, a disease that affects the body’s ability to produce blood cells. Ellie has received multiple blood and platelet transfusions, which is why her friends and family wanted to host a …
Jeanne Butcher is one of Wales’ longest serving blood donors, doing her bit to save lives across the country. Over the last 59 years she has donated blood 100 times and is now encouraging her local community to do the same. The 71-year-old from Bassaleg, Newport was recognised at a …