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Blood Donation – Common Concerns

By: Ian Gould | 2011-08-22 | Medicine
Blood donation, although a noble act, has many myths and concerns associated with it. Sometimes, some donors have allergy and react to sodium citrate which is used in the apheresis type of blood collection procedure, which is used to keep the blood from clotting. read more

Donor Testing before Blood Donation

By: Ian Gould | 2011-08-17 | Medicine
Everyone who has donated blood once in their lifetime is aware about the procedure for blood donation. This donor testing could also have complications like women, teenagers and first-time donors can be affected by reaction. read more

Blood Donation- A Great Act

By: Grant Olsen | 2010-08-02 | News and society
Annualy there are 4,5 million patients waiting for blood transfering across North and South America. Some of them are infants, kids who suffered from terrible diseases like cancer or heart attack. Moreover, adult cancer and trauma patients will have to be platelet transfused if they want to survive. read more

Blood Donation Is Harmless to Our Health

By: Code Blue | 2012-09-21 | Health & Fitness
In people’s traditional concept, blood donation is easy to damage the body. In fact, this understanding is not correct. The right amount of blood donation for human health is not only harmless, but beneficial. read more

Blood Donation – An Act of Benevolence

By: Ian Gould | 2011-08-03 | Health & Fitness
Blood donation is a very noble act, as losing just a pint of blood would make no difference to a healthy individual, while a needy patient may get a new life. Blood donation is not only an act of humanity but also of communal harmony. read more

Donating Blood - The Greatest Gift of All

By: Geeta Rao | 2010-04-03 | Health & Fitness
Donating blood in the noblest deed one can opt for on the earth because it saves lives. Just imagine you are saving life of a human being! All the other gifts are bought with the force of money but this gift comes out of only feeling! Blood donation has also picked up very well in India, Ahmedabad. read more

How Often Can I Make a Blood Donation and Why?

By: Brian Milne | 2010-03-27 | Health & Fitness
Donating blood is a wonderful way to volunteer to serve your community. The blood you donate can be used to save lives in a variety of ways. Accidents, unexpected surgical emergencies, national disasters, and to help people with a variety of blood diseases, are just some of the reasons blood is needed. Blood donation is a safe and relatively painless procedure. read more

Donating Menstrual Blood For Stem Cell Research

By: Akmol | 2010-11-01 | Diabetes
Menstrual blood stem cells collection procedures are neither unethical nor they cause any harm or pain to the woman donating blood. From a donor menstrual blood can be collected for over 35 years. Starting from the age of 12 years it can be donated till the donor is about 47 years old. read more

Be another grateful mother by cord blood donation

By: jackson daren | 2011-07-30 | Medicine
It might sound like a miracle but it is a fact that a woman named Gorrell, a citizen of California, has been saved by the stem cells found in the cord blood of two women. Umbilical cord that acts as a link between mother's womb and child has been tracked to show the presence of stem cells. read more

Sahara’s regular Blood Donation and Awareness Workshops

By: Rani Awesti | 2011-07-25 | Business
This time it wasn’t just the concern of Mr. Sahara but the courage and dedication of the workers of Sahara group who donated blood in the Blood Donation Camp which was again a sincere initiative of Sahara. The Workshops by Sahara are quite popular among the various rural as well as urban sects to which Sahara has been available throughout. read more

What People Should Eat before and after Donating Blood

By: Emma111 | 2011-06-15 | Food & Beverage
Blood donation not only could help others but also is good to body health. In order to ensure the blood quality and body health, people should pay attention to the diet before and after donating blood. read more

Donate Menstrual Blood And Contribute In The Stem Cell Research

By: Akmol | 2011-01-28 | Diabetes
Stem cells are those cells that replace the damaged cells of the body with new one. Generally, there are three sources for extracting the stem cells from the body. One is from the embryo that is called as embryonic stem cells. Second from adult tissues called as adult stem cells. The third one is extracted from umbilical cord blood but it is only possible during delivery. read more

Stem Cell Storage - Donating Your Cord Blood to Help Others

By: Simon Paisley | 2010-04-01 | Medicine
Today many parents are choosing to have their newborn baby's cord blood stored privately in a cord blood bank as a future source of stem cells for medical treatments. There is, however, an alternative to private storage. This is to donate the cord blood to public storage so that it is available to help others. read more

Fighting for high need of cord blood donation and organ donors

By: jackson daren | 2011-04-01 | Medicine
The stem cells taken from bone marrow and cord blood are used for the treatment of some fatal diseases like leukemia, aplastic anemia, lymphoma and autoimmune disorders. It is only the whole donations that follow the obligation of public health. read more

Now feel secure with new storage place of umbilical cord blood donation

By: jackson daren | 2011-06-23 | Medicine
The scientists from all around the world today fully acknowledge the importance of umbilical cord. This is the reason that the cord that was earlier considered as waste and used to be discarded is now being preserved. Scientists now ask parents to donate cord blood so that it can be used for the treatment of several diseases for their child. read more