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Blood reserves hit critical levels: '4,000 bags of blood needed every day'

A team of Cooks Hill soccer players have a new goal: saving lives.

Newcastle Herald

Tell Us What Free Snacks Would Get You To Donate Blood & We Might Give You $500

Australian Red Cross Lifeblood wants to know what free food and drink you want at your next blood donation. And you might win $500 in return.

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Concern as Canberra blood donations hit 'critical' level

Lifeblood is experiencing a low level of blood donations.

The Canberra Times

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Low blood donation storages as sickness grips Victoria

Lifeblood Red Cross is calling on new donors to step up, as sickness plagues Victoria.

AAP

“It was us trying to be a different version of ourselves”: James Dean Bradfield on the making of Manic Street Preachers' 2004 album Lifeblood

The band recently announced a 20th anniversary reissue of their seventh album

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Why police are rolling up their sleeves these holidays - and want you to

'As first responders, we know how important blood donations are.'

Newcastle Herald

'Critical holiday period': 200 extra blood donors needed in Hunter

200 extra blood donors are needed in Hunter over New Year period

Newcastle Herald

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'Life-changing': Hunter blood donors needed to help people like young Saxon

A son's cancer taught his mum the importance of blood donations.

Newcastle Herald

Australian Scientists Create World’s Tiniest Mustache On Red Blood Cell

Microscopic 'Mo' Raises Awareness for Men's Health and Blood Donation

Zenger

Parents of Poppy Grace Middleton call for blood donations as supplies run low

Lifeblood staff say a bad flu season sparks need for urgent donations.

Newcastle Herald

Red Cross Lifeblood calls for poo donations to carry out lifesaving treatments and research

Poo donations are being used to treat a deadly gut infection, with trials recording a huge cure rate. Donors say its easier than giving blood, but there's not enough of them.

ABC News

Red Cross denies regional blood shortages despite cancer patient turned away twice in one month

The Australian Red Cross's Lifeblood service strongly denies there are blood shortages in regional Western Australia, despite a cancer patient on the Goldfields being turned away from transfusion appointments for the second time this month.

ABC News

People 'keen to donate' in push to reopen Kalgoorlie blood donor centre a decade after closure

Outside of the state's south, there's almost nowhere to donate blood if you live in regional Western Australia, but residents in Kalgoorlie-Boulder hope to change that.

ABC News

Urgent call for blood and plasma donations

The Australian Red Cross has issued a desperate plea for blood and plasma donors as demand from hospitals reaches its highest level in nearly a decade.

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Australian Islamic community donates to Lifeblood to increase rare blood type supplies

Australia's Islamic community is participating in what it hopes will be one of the nation's largest religious blood drives for the Australian Red Cross's Lifeblood.

The Canberra Times

Lifeblood urging people to donate blood ahead of World Cancer Day

Lifeblood has teamed up with fashion designer Camilla Franks.

ABC News

Calls for federal, state governments to green-light postal cheek swabs to recruit bone marrow donors

A Brisbane father battling leukaemia says allowing people to register as bone marrow donors through a postal recruitment program would help thousands like him access vital transplants.

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TIL You Can Give Plasma The Second After Getting A Tattoo Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Me Earlier?

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Number of Australians who have had COVID-19 jumps in June survey of blood samples

Australia's most recent blood testing for relevant antibodies suggests at least 46 per cent of adults had been infected with COVID-19 by early June.

The Conversation

People who lived in the UK in the 'mad cow disease' years may now be able to give blood. The risk of vCJD is tiny

From today, eligible people who were in the United Kingdom in the 80s and 90s will be able to donate blood in Australia again.

The Canberra Times

Lifeblood moves to axe key question from plasma screening

The Red Cross is pushing to remove sexual history questions from its plasma donor screening.

ABC News

Blood and plasma donations help save Charlie's life every week, and 1.5 million Australians each year

Charlie looks like any energetic four-year-old, but his life depends on the kindness of strangers, and as the nation's blood and plasma stocks dwindle, the Red Cross is calling for more donors.

AAP

Misconceptions hindering blood donations

Australians have little idea how many people will need blood transfusions during their lifetime and vastly overestimate donor numbers, research shows.

ABC News

Australia's blood stocks plummet as donors off sick with flu and COVID, Red Cross Lifeblood says

Australia's blood stocks are expected to drop to their lowest point since the start of the pandemic as donations take a nosedive during the country's surge in flu cases.

Pedestrian.tv

The TGA Has Lifted The Ban For UK Citizens To Donate Blood So Go On, Do The Gays Next Thanks

People previously banned will likely be eligible later in 2022.

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