Steve joins Bethany Bray Patterson from the American Red Cross to discuss how to donate blood during the summertime.

With the July Fourth weekend nearing, the American Red Cross is urgently seeking blood donations. The organization reports a ...

The American Red Cross is urgently sounding the alarm on an "emergency" shortage of blood donations that can mean "life and death" for patients. Donations have reached an alarming 20-year low with ...

Over the last 20 years, the number of people donating blood to the Red Cross has fallen by about 40%. When fewer people donate blood, even small disruptions to blood donations – such as the ...

The number of people donating blood has dropped 40% over the last two decades, according to the Red Cross. Severe winter weather and illnesses could make an already bad situation even worse, it says.

Due to the decrease in donations the Red Cross is hoping that other others will consider giving somebody the gift of life this summer. “There is always a need for blood”, Dan said.

American Red Cross Team Supervisor Manny Silva holds a pint of donated blood in the organization’s new Riverside Blood Donation Center on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024.

SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa - The American Red Cross is calling for blood donations.According to the organization, only 3% of age-eligible people donate blood every year. There are a few blood drives that ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The American Red Cross is urging donors to give blood or platelets this February to help replenish the blood supply after thousands of donations went uncollected last month.

The American Red Cross said it needs blood year-round and the organization is working to prevent shortages. Jury in Sean ...

American Red Cross Team Supervisor Manny Silva is seen Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024, at one of the 10 blood donation stations in the organization’s new Riverside Blood Donation Center.