blood donation

A woman who survived an explosion that made international headlines is now issuing an impassioned plea to people everywhere to donate blood — a gift she said saved her life. “All that I could do was desperately fight to stay alive,” Stefanie Schaffer said of the moments following an explosion that nearly killed her. Schaffer is the Vermont dancer who…

A woman who survived an explosion in the Bahamas is asking people everywhere to help improve and even save lives like hers.

Vermont native Stefanie Schaffer, 25, spoke Tuesday at Rutland’s Paramount Theatre about her long recovery after losing her legs — and nearly her life — in a boat explosion in the Bahamas in October 2018. Schaffer spoke of how blood donations kept her alive and urged people to give blood to help alleviate what American Red Cross has described a...

A senior citizen’s birthday wish has come true, thanks to the community-mindedness of Vermonters. As NECN reported earlier this month, Mary Ojala, of Rutland, asked people to donate blood at the Gift of Life Marathon blood drive — as a 100th birthday present. Ojala is a longtime volunteer for the American Red Cross. The Gift of Life Marathon, a four-day…

Mary Ojala, of Rutland, had asked people to donate blood at the Gift of Life Marathon blood drive—as a 100th birthday present.

A Vermont woman who just turned 100 years old is asking community members for a birthday present that doesn’t even cost a penny. “It’s such a nice time to be giving,” said Mary Ojala, of Rutland, who is asking folks to roll up their sleeves for the Gift of Life Marathon—a four-day blood drive in and around Rutland.  Ojala,...

Mary Ojala, of Rutland, Vermont, is asking folks to roll up their sleeves for the Gift of Life Marathon—a four-day blood drive in and around Rutland.

A transgender man says his gender at birth was required on his intake form when he was trying to donate blood in Virginia.

The American Red Cross is facing a severe blood shortage, and for people who depend n that, this is their health crisis.

The U.S. Surgeon General on Thursday urged all healthy Americans to consider donating blood to help fight a potential nationwide shortage amid the coronavirus outbreak. “Social distancing does not have to mean social disengagement,” Jerome Adams said at a White House press briefing in which he urged anyone who can to “give blood today.”

With many people now working from home, office blood drives are being canceled across the nation, but hospitals need regular donations — blood can’t be stored for long periods of time

Stefanie Schaffer, a Vermont woman who suffered life-changing injuries in June 2018, is turning her experience into an opportunity to motivate blood donors to roll up their sleeves and give.