Transplant only cure for nine-month-old’s chronic Granulomatous disease
Canada Blood Services highlights need for O-negative blood donors
Why We Swab: Correspondence shared in awareness campaign to recruit more donors
Organization says evidence shows that the change would pose no safety risk to the blood supply
Organization plans to submit its recommendation to Health Canada within the next two weeks
Plans calls for changing focus on gender or sexuality, to higher-risk sexual behaviour instead
Details are being finalized, employees will be presented with deal ahead of a vote on Monday
In most of Canada, men who have sex with men can donate only if they have abstained from sex
Canadian Blood Services is in need of more blood donors following the COVID-19 pandemic
Need for blood products tailed off dramatically 16 months ago as the pandemic took hold
Blood ban has been in existence in some form since 1992
About 400,000 of Canada’s 37 million population give blood on a regular basis
Researchers say antibodies indicate past infection
It’s time for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to honour his promises, advocates say
There was no cutting of cake for Harvey Rempel but he’s challenging youth to start donating blood
