http://www.medindia.net/healthnews/Blood-Donation-news.asp Medindia largest health website in india. en-us Copyright 2012. All Rights Reserved. Fri, 25 May 2012 04:37:06 GMT http://www.medindia.net/news/Massive-Blood-Donation-Drive-by-HDFC-Bank-Across-India-94454-1.htm HDFC Bank is organizing a nationwide Blood Donation Campaign in India on Friday, December 9, 2011. People in 521 Indian cities will be able to donate blood at over 679 blood donation camps from 0900 hrs to 1700 hrs in one of the India's biggest single-day blood donation campaigns where individual donors, including many Bank executives, are expected to donate blood. The Bank has tied up with major hospitals and blood banks across these cities for technical assistance. "Blood is precious....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Massive-Blood-Donation-Drive-by-HDFC-Bank-Across-India-94454-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Grant-Relating-to-Ban-on-Blood-Donations-by-Gay-and-Bisexual-Men-Not-Accessed-84470-1.htm A Salon article in ICMAJ/I (ICanadian Medical Association Journal/I) says that Canadian researchers may be biased since a half-million dollar research grant to possibly change the ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood has not been accessed. "As to why researchers did not proceed in their normal fashion, which is to fiercely compete for any relevant funding opportunity, remains unknown," write Jason Behrmann and Vardit Ravitsky, University of Montreal. "However, a clue may lie in ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Grant-Relating-to-Ban-on-Blood-Donations-by-Gay-and-Bisexual-Men-Not-Accessed-84470-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Blood-Donation-in-Australia-80979-1.htm The Australian Red Cross is working with the country's Defence Force on more effective methods to freeze Australian blood for their troops engaged in distant conflicts. Cryopreservation that involves freezing and thawing blood and blood products without tampering with its integrity, is being researched, reported the Executive Director of Red Cross Blood Service, Dr. David Irving. This will help in developing the 'frozen chain' of blood services to their soldiers in far off war zones. "Once the system ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Blood-Donation-in-Australia-80979-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/October-is-Blood-Donation-Month-in-UP-74794-1.htm October will be celebrated as the month of blood donation in Uttar Pradesh with health officials revealing that a number of blood donation camps will be conducted throughout the month. While October 1 is being celebrated as the Voluntary Blood Donation Day, the district magistrate in Allahabad said that just 18 percent of those donating blood in the district do in voluntarily, adding that more steps need to be taken in order to urge people to donate their blood freely. District Magistrate Sanjay ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/October-is-Blood-Donation-Month-in-UP-74794-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Blood-Donation-Drive-Starts-in-Tamil-Nadu-74476-1.htm The Tamil Nadu state government in association with Rotary International has launched a statewide blood donation drive with the emphasis on youth. R. Sriram, who is Rotary's district chairman for Blood and Organ Donation, said that most of the venues will be in colleges since the emphasis of the donation drive will be on youth. The drive is expected to collect at least 50,000 units of blood on a single day with Sriram stating that the blood will save lives of more than 45,000 people. "We are catching the young....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Blood-Donation-Drive-Starts-in-Tamil-Nadu-74476-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Gay-Lawsuit-over-Blood-Donation-Rejected-by-China-Court-71025-1.htm A Beijing court has stopped a Chinese man's attempts to sue a Red Cross centre in the capital after his blood donation was turned down because he was gay, state media reported Thursday. The man, an editor identified by his pen name Wang Zizheng, filed the lawsuit last month at a court in Haidian in northwest Beijing, in what state media said was the first such case in China. But according to the state-run Beijing Times, an official at the court told Wang on Wednesday that his case had been rejected, without giving him a reason....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Gay-Lawsuit-over-Blood-Donation-Rejected-by-China-Court-71025-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/100-Percent-Voluntary-Blood-Donation-Will-Help-to-Overcome-Shortage-Azad-70044-1.htm Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday emphasized the need for achieving 100 percent voluntary blood donation, thereby ensuring that there is no shortage of safe blood in the country. Azad, who inaugurated the upgraded Indian Red Cross Model Blood Bank here said there is a need to motivate young donors so that they are timely identified, motivated, recruited and retained as voluntary blood donors. He honoured eight blood donors, who have donated ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/100-Percent-Voluntary-Blood-Donation-Will-Help-to-Overcome-Shortage-Azad-70044-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/US-Senators-Call-to-Lift-Ban-on-Gay-Blood-Donations-65920-1.htm US senators called Thursday for an end to a 1983 US rule that bans gay men from donating blood, calling the prohibition "outdated, medically and scientifically unsound." Democratic Senator John Kerry led a group of 17 Democrats and one independent in writing US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to urge the agency to lift the restriction. "We write today to express our concerns regarding outdated, medically and scientifically unsound deferral criteria for prospective ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/US-Senators-Call-to-Lift-Ban-on-Gay-Blood-Donations-65920-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Blood-Donation-is-a-Perfect-Holiday-Gift-61525-1.htm The American Red Cross has said that the best gift anyone can give during the holidays is to donate blood. Scott Caswell, CEO of the Central Plains Region Red Cross said that blood is needed all through the year for surgeries and trauma cases as well as for cancer patients. "Blood is available only when generous donors are willing to roll up their sleeves. It truly may be the greatest gift someone receives this holiday season," he added. Blood donation is one of the noblest deeds and the Red Cross ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Blood-Donation-is-a-Perfect-Holiday-Gift-61525-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Red-Cross-Society-Honors-35-Organizations-for-Conducting-Blood-Donation-Camps-53778-1.htm The Indian District Red Cross Society held a function to honor blood donors and organizations that helped organize voluntarily blood donation camps on Sunday. The camps were held under the aegis of the Red Cross Regional Blood Bank, Ludhiana. Some 35 organizations and 10 individual donors were honored at a small function on Sunday. Dr Sat Pal Sharma, Civil Surgeon, spoke on the occasion and said donating blood could save many lives and asked people to come forward to donate blood. AK Sharma, Deputy ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Red-Cross-Society-Honors-35-Organizations-for-Conducting-Blood-Donation-Camps-53778-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Worlds-Largest-Blood-Donation-Camp-To-Be-Held-In-Amritsar-48063-1.htm To set a unique example by a community, various Sikh originations are going to hold world's largest blood donation camp in Amritsar on the occasion of the Hola Mohalla celebrations on March 10 at the Sikh shrine of Keshgarh Sahib, Anandpur Sahib. About one million devotees are expected to arrive here on the occasion of Hola Mohalla celebrations here, when the huge blood donation camp will be organized. Large number of Sikhs and members of other communities are expected to ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Worlds-Largest-Blood-Donation-Camp-To-Be-Held-In-Amritsar-48063-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Army-Base-Hospital-Organizes-Blood-Donation-Camp-47230-1.htm Army Base Hospital on Saturday organized a blood donation camp at Delhi Cantonment. The camp was conducted by team of one Officer, one Junior Commissioned Officer and 12 Blood Transfusion Agency's from the Armed forces Transfusion Centre, Delhi Cantonment. This is the largest blood bank of the Indian Army and a premier institute in the field of Transfusion Medicine, catering to the blood requirement of entitled service and ex-service personnel and their families admitted at Army Hospitals and Base ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Army-Base-Hospital-Organizes-Blood-Donation-Camp-47230-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Age-Limit-for-Blood-Donation-Extended-45253-1.htm New rules for blood donation permit old time blood donors to donate blood even after they touch 70 years of age. It is hoped that this extension of age limit for blood donations will result inadditional 15000 donations each year. This means the donors who have donated blood in the past two years can continue to donate blood even after their 70SUPth/SUP birthday. However, there is no change in the rule for donors donating blood for the first time; the age limit for new donors still remains at 65....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Age-Limit-for-Blood-Donation-Extended-45253-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Students-Alliance-in-Manipur-Unearths-Blood-Donation-Racket-40749-1.htm The Democratic Students Alliance has unearthed a blood donation racket in the Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital in Manipur. Six officials from the blood bank in the hospital, four regular blood donors, and an agent are allegedly involved in the racket. Hospital authorities have begun an inquiry and have promised action on those involved. The investigation has brought to light the modus operandi of four professional blood donors, who were in the practice of selling their blood thrice in a month. As per health ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Students-Alliance-in-Manipur-Unearths-Blood-Donation-Racket-40749-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Frequent-Blood-Donation-Not-Linked-to-Donors-Risk-of-Cancers-35201-1.htm A new study has shown that frequent blood donation does not change a person's risk of developing cancer. Researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm found no clear trend for an increased or decreased risk of cancer with increased donations. While iron is a vital trace element for essentially all living organisms, too much iron has been implicated as a possible risk factor for certain cancers. If true, blood letting might be protective. Conversely, blood cell proliferation after donation might increase the risk of malignancy....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Frequent-Blood-Donation-Not-Linked-to-Donors-Risk-of-Cancers-35201-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=21234 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has declared that the life-time ban on donation of blood by gay men will stay, at least for now. Thus it has turned down pleas by associations like the Red Cross and AABB (formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks) to reverse the ban in view of the serious shortage of blood in the country. The agency argues that current HIV testing cannot always pick up right away when someone is HIV positive. It said on its website, "The 'window ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=21234 http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=15809 Orissa Red Cross Society jointly with Ama Odisha organization has set a new record in blood donation breaking the previous record of 2,002 units donated on a single day. The chairman of Ama Odisha told the newspersons on Thursday that the previous record was broken twice during the week-long drive that was launched between 25-31st October covering 181 centres across Orissa. He also added that the drive created a lot of enthusiasm among youngsters and a new record of 2,017 units was registered ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=15809 http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=9341 Jack Purves was born 13 weeks premature and weighed less than 1lb 6oz. He was so weak that he needed life support to help him breathe. Some timely blood transfusions ensured that he lived and grew stronger. Even his mother Donna Morgan who developed pneumonia and anemia after the very early birth had to be given blood transfusions to recover. Now the mother and baby are back home and in gratitude to those who helped them, they are launching a campaign to fill the worryingly empty blood stocks in Scotland....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=9341 http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=8773 Are you badly in need of blood or are you inclined in donating the precious fluid for those who are in need of it? Either way, the solution for it is just a few clicks away. Nagpur-based Khushroo Poacha, 38, co-founded indianblooddonors.com, a simple yet amazingly useful venture in 2000. He works for Central Railway as a computer supervisor and his wife Fermin is part of the venture too. If you're located in Kolkata and badly need blood, you can probably find someone who is willing to donate your group - pro bono - through this network....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=8773 http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=7163 The Australian Red Cross Blood service as urged the Government staff and private employees to donate blood. The Corporate Donor Program which has been launched under the Co-ordination of Michael Sands has urged the Government departments as well as Private companies to donate blood. Program co-coordinator has asked the employers of private organization to encourage their employees to donate blood. The Program coordinator as agreed to organize shuttle bus service between their office and blood ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=7163 http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=5981 It has been predicted by the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) that winter would experience an acute shortage of blood and blood derived products. In an attempt to manage this crisis, it has been proposed to increase the maximum age for blood donation from 60 to 66 years. There has been a steady decline in the number of blood donations since 1999. The following move is expected to increase the number of blood donations to a sustainable level. Out of a large pool of potential blood donors ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=5981