PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) - The American Red Cross is urging people to donate blood as demand rises this summer.

As World Blood Donor Day nears, health experts stress the crucial need for Black donors to help patients with sickle cell disease and fill gaps in national and global blood supplies.

ICMR creates rare blood donor database to aid high-risk patients The portal, called the ICMR-Rare Donor Registry of India (RDRI), already includes over 600 donors with rare antigen combinations ...

As an added incentive, people who give blood this month will get a $15 Amazon.com gift card via email and will be automatically entered for a chance to win one of two $7,000 gift cards.

The activists who lobbied for decades against the ban on blood donations from the queer community can finally celebrate the removal of this stigma – a relic of the AIDS crisis of the 1980s.

Australia’s national blood donation service has announced a landmark policy change that will remove outdated and discriminatory rules against gay men that were put in place during the height of ...

The rules were initially introduced to decrease the risk of HIV transmission through blood from higher-risk groups. Lifeblood, the national agency for donation services formally known as Australia's ...

A man who grew up in Greenville will do something really special in Honolulu next week.

Coming up, field day for local amateur radio operators in Earlysville, the fourth annual Fae Festival at Ix Art Park and more.

NHSBT warns of dangerously low blood stocks, urging more donors — especially those with O-negative and Ro subtypes — to come forward.