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Canadian Blood Services

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Type: Organization

Name: Canadian Blood Services

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 4 reports

Timing is everything

An hour out of your busy schedule could mean a lifetime for someone in need of blood.Traditionally, there’s a spike in need during long weekends, which is why Canadian Blood Services is hosting a special donor clinic in Cambridge during Victoria Day ... [Published Cambridge Times Ontario - May 17 2013]

Entities: Canadian Blood Services, Donations, Patient, Neonatal, Blood Transfusion

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

They want your blood

They came for bloodLocal high school students turned into a pack of zombies on Friday in an effort of raising awareness of blood donor clinics.next play/pause preCollingwood ConnectionThey came for blood.Local residents may have been shocked to see a ... [Published Simcoe.com - May 15 2013]

Entities: Canadian Blood Services, Donations, Cranberry

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Canadian Blood Services

Dryden Comes Out In Droves To Support Donor Clinic

The Blood Donor Clinic in Dryden is being hailed a major success despite some hiccups.Canadian Blood Services was forced at the last minute to run a 1-day clinic due to unforeseen circumstances but that didn't seem to matter much.211-donors gave the gift ... [Published CKDR Dryden - May 15 2013]

Entities: Donor, Canadian Blood Services, Patient

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Power Centre blood clinic seeking donors

While an hour of your time may not seem long, for patients waiting for blood your one-hour donating blood is considered time well-spent.However, with many donors away or busy over long weekends, the number of donations usually declines despite the demand ... [Published Inside Halton - May 14 2013]

Entities: Canadian Blood Services, Donor, Donations

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

CBS?s Assignment Saving Lives Bursary Program

Every minute of every day, someone in Canada needs blood or blood products, and Canadian Blood Donor Services wants your help.Through the Canadian Blood Services’ Assignment Saving Lives Bursary Program, students can recruit new or previous donors and ... [Published Brandon University Quill - May 14 2013]

Entities: Donor, Donations, Canadian Blood Services

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Raising awareness for national cord blood bank

Submitted photo Tim Williams, regional partnership specialist for Canadian Blood Services based out of Ottawa, is heading to Mount Kilimanjaro in August to raise funds and awareness for an umbilical cord blood bank in Canada.Change text size for the ... [Published Northumberland Today - May 13 2013]

Entities: Tim Williams, Canadian Blood Services, Stem Cell, Fundraising, Colborne (Canada)

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

More Durham residents could donate blood if screening questions changed

OSHAWA -- Health Canada is reviewing one of its blood donor policies, which could enable more Canadians to donate blood, but some community groups in Durham believe the changes won't be effective. Canada's blood donor organizations, Canadian Blood Services ... [Published Newsdurhamregion.com - May 07 2013]

Entities: Durham (Canada), HIV/AIDS, Canadian Blood Services, Health Canada

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

Valuable volunteers

As we celebrate National Volunteer Week, Canadian Blood Services thanks the 17,000 volunteers who dedicated 215,000 hours of their time in the last year to help support Canada’s blood system.In B.C. and the Yukon, 1,800 volunteers invested nearly 35,000 ... [Published Vernon Morning Star - May 05 2013]

Entities: Canadian Blood Services, Donor, Donations, Stem Cell

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Blood donor clinic in memory of one amazing man

The Travis Reid Blood Drive is held at the Canadian Blood Services building from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursay. To book an appointment call 1-888-236-6283.(PETERBOROUGH) Before he died, one of Travis Reid’s many goals in life was to reach 100 blood donat ... [Published My Kawartha - May 01 2013]

Entities: Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Memory, Crestwood Secondary School

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Blood donor clinics coming up

Over the next year Canadian Blood Services nationally will need to collect 899,000 units of blood.There are currently 423,000 active blood donors in Canada - that is, they have donated at least once in the past 12 months.By 2015, the donor base needs ... [Published Simcoe.com - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Donor, Canadian Blood Services, Canada, Appointment, Patient

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 3 reports

Letter: Blood Services keep flowing thanks to volunteers

To the editor:As we celebrate National Volunteer Week, Canadian Blood Services thanks the 17,000 volunteers who dedicated 215,000 hours of their time in the last year to help support Canada’s blood system.In B.C. and the Yukon Region, 1,800 volunteers ... [Published Kelowna Capital - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Canadian Blood Services, Donor, Donations, Stem Cell

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

Blood donor clinic highlights volunteer

The blood donor clinic in Brandon is highlighting 11 years of dedication from one of their volunteers as they mark National Volunteer Week from April 2127. "Our volunteers provide considerable value to the donation experience, which is recognized by many ... [Published Brandon Sun - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Angela Davis, Canadian Blood Services, Stephanie Smith, Donor, Donations

Quotes

"I think that there are significant lessons here: One is that we are a community that we care for each other; the second is that each of us can make a difference" said principal David McAdam

Thornhill students get swabbed for Sarah [Published CBC - May 02 2013]

"This means a lot to us. Unfortunately, it's take a very long time, which means that research has suffered" Gustaf Edgren from Karolinska Institutet told the TT news agency following the ruling

Donors of 'risky' blood must be revealed: court [Published The Local Sweden - Apr 29 2013]

"We were totally blessed. Our life was changed because somebody donated" Congo said

Edmonton researcher at centre of new national program helping Canadian transplant patients [Published CTV News - Apr 23 2013]

...the program uniquely Canadian, an innovative approach to enhancing a national transplant system that would be difficult to achieve anywhere else. "One of the key strengths of this proposal is that every part of Canada—involving different researchers, sociologic fields, emerging researchers and established researchers—is a part of this consortium,” the review stated. “It would be difficult to gather such an accomplished and collegial group of people in any other country. The program represents an innovative approach to enhancing a national transplant system and is truly original.”"

UAlberta researcher to head national transplant research program [Published University of Alberta Express News - Apr 23 2013]

More Content

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What's On - May 16, 2013 [Published Brandon Sun - 22 hours ago]
Timing is everything [Published Cambridge Times Ontario - May 17 2013]
Canadian Blood Services call on residents to do... [Published Flamborough Review - May 17 2013]
Victoria clinic looking for blood donations [Published Victoria News - May 16 2013]
Donate Blood this Long Weekend [Published VOCM - May 16 2013]
They want your blood [Published Simcoe.com - May 15 2013]
Dryden Comes Out In Droves To Support Donor Clinic [Published CKDR Dryden - May 15 2013]
Power Centre blood clinic seeking donors [Published Inside Halton - May 14 2013]
CBS?s Assignment Saving Lives Bursary Program [Published Brandon University Quill - May 14 2013]
Raising awareness for national cord blood bank [Published Northumberland Today - May 13 2013]
What's On - May 9, 2013 [Published Brandon Sun - May 10 2013]
Honouring Our Lifeblood [Published Northumberland Today - May 10 2013]
Canada's Largest Science Event to Captivate Mil... [Published Canada NewsWire - May 09 2013]
More Durham residents could donate blood if scr... [Published Newsdurhamregion.com - May 07 2013]
Donor pays it forward [Published Postcity.com - May 06 2013]
Valuable volunteers [Published Vernon Morning Star - May 05 2013]
What's On - May 2, 2013 [Published Brandon Sun - May 03 2013]
Thornhill students get swabbed for Sarah [Published CBC - May 02 2013]
Blood donor clinic in memory of one amazing man [Published My Kawartha - May 01 2013]
Blood donor clinics coming up [Published Simcoe.com - Apr 30 2013]
BLOOD DONATIONS REQUESTED [Published CKLW 800 AM - Apr 30 2013]
Letter: Blood Services keep flowing thanks to v... [Published Kelowna Capital - Apr 30 2013]
Help Rayna fight her battle [Published Bonnyville Nouville - Apr 30 2013]
Thank you, blood services volunteers [Published Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal - Apr 29 2013]
Thank you, blood services volunteers [Published Surrey Leader - Apr 29 2013]
Donors of 'risky' blood must be revealed: court [Published The Local Sweden - Apr 29 2013]
Edmonton researcher at centre of new national p... [Published CTV News - Apr 23 2013]
UAlberta researcher to head national transplant... [Published University of Alberta Express News - Apr 23 2013]
Faceoff: should for-profit blood or plasma dona... [Published Postcity.com - Apr 22 2013]
Blood donor clinic highlights volunteer [Published Brandon Sun - Apr 22 2013]

Blogs

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Emile Therien: The way forward on organ donation [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 22 2013] June 17 will mark the seventh anniversary of the death of our beloved daughter. She died of sudden cardiac arrest at the young age of 32 in 2006. In death, Sarah Beth became a medical pioneer. For the first time in Canada, cardiac death, not brain death, ...
Jesse Kline on paying for blood donations: Putt... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Mar 17 2013] In a clear case of ideology trumping good public policy, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq agreed last week to hold off on a decision on whether to allow Toronto-based Canadian Plasma Resources to open three private blood clinics in Ontario. Since the ...
Full Pundit: Invading Syria — how hard can it be? [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Mar 13 2013] The Ottawa miscellany Senator Hugh Segal , writing in the National Post , calls for “a coalition composed of Arab and NATO countries [to] intervene decisively [in Syria] with a targeted air campaign, reducing Assad’s military capabilities and ...

Press Releases

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Ottawa Senators and Canadian Blood Services to ... [Published Marketwire - Breaking News Releases - Apr 15 2013]
Economic Club of Canada Presents-Canadian Blood... [Published Marketwire - Breaking News Releases - Nov 21 2012]