Family that credits blood donations with giving father more time plans blood drive

Robert ‘Bob’ Young was known as a jack-of-all-trades and a hard worker. After serving in the U.S. Marines during the Vietnam War and receiving a Purple Heart, Young owned two local businesses – the Hog House, a bike shop, and Monticello Tool and Cutter – and was a master tool …
The American Red Cross is holding a blood drive in honor of a 7-year-old girl battling cancer. Ansley Gilich has B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which requires multiple blood product infusions. The blood drive will be held Friday, July 24, from noon until 7 p.m. at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church on …
Allen Martin reports on UCSF medical students holding blood drive as coronavirus pandemic drastically reduces supply Read Full Article
A Massapequa family held a blood drive this weekend to help the holiday blood shortage in honor of cancer-surviving daughter. Massapequa cancer survivor Aliyah Petrone and her family know firsthand how critical blood supply is for those in need and held a blood drive this past weekend during a crucial …
An Orland Park woman says she wants to focus on helping other the way they helped her after a devastating diagnosis. “I just didn’t feel like something was right, so I went to the emergency room,” Marie Fuesel recalled. Fuesel was diagnosed with leukemia, but after receiving nearly 100 transfusions …
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 …
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
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 …
A boy living with cancer hopes Calgarians will roll up their sleeves and let the donations flow, saying he wouldn’t be alive today without them. “They had to take some of my good and bad blood and replace it with good blood,” Foster Garrison said Tuesday at a blood drive …
One year to the day after finding out their five-year-old son, Ethan, had leukemia, Aseem and Tracy Mahajan helped draw new donors to a blood clinic Saturday at Branlyn Community Centre. “Donating blood may not be a priority for many people now because there’s no need in their lives but …