Blood shortage prompts call for donations
(HealthDay)—The American Red Cross needs your blood, and it needs it now.
Jul 6, 2017
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(HealthDay)—The American Red Cross needs your blood, and it needs it now.
Jul 6, 2017
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Red Cross volunteers prevented a significant number of Ebola cases during the 2013-2016 epidemic in west Africa by using safe burial techniques, according to a study released Thursday.
Jun 22, 2017
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The U.N. health agency and some major partners have agreed to send 1 million doses of cholera vaccine to Yemen to help stanch a spiraling and increasingly deadly caseload in the impoverished country, which is already facing ...
Jun 21, 2017
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The emergency call issued by the American Red Cross earlier this year was of a sort all too common: Donations of platelets were needed, and desperately. But a new discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine ...
May 19, 2017
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Imagine yourself relaxing at the beach when the worst happens—someone notices a boy in trouble in the water. In the mad rush to get him to shore, you have two choices: wait for emergency responders to arrive or start administering ...
May 17, 2017
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The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) warned Wednesday of a health crisis in Somaliland after 28 people died of acute diarrhoea in the past 10 days.
Apr 12, 2017
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More than 20,000 nurses currently serve as volunteers with the American Red Cross, supporting victims of natural and man-made disasters. Many tens-of-thousands more nurses are also informally promoting healthy behaviors in ...
Mar 29, 2017
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When we talk about supply chains, we may conjure up images of manufacturing plants, warehouses, trucks and shipping docks. There is another, truly unique supply chain for a product vitally important to health care and life, ...
Jan 9, 2017
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(HealthDay)—Screening for Babesia microti antibodies and DNA in blood-donation samples is associated with a reduction in the risk of transfusion-transmitted babesiosis, according to a study published in the Dec. 8 issue ...
Dec 9, 2016
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Connections to other people are at the heart of the resilience and recovery of survivors of Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires—but a landmark study warns that it can take five years or longer for the trauma to become manageable ...
Nov 29, 2016
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