Blood Donation

A perfect storm of COVID, blood drive cancellations and the calendar has created a national blood shortage. Here’s how it’s affecting Texas.

Doctors from major hospital systems in San Antonio put out an urgent call for blood donations.

Blood donation centers around the country are experiencing critical shortages in inventory earlier than expected as drives and donations have decreased…

COVID-19 has no proven cure, but a possible treatment for the disease might flow through the veins of people who recently recovered. The FDA is leading an…

As of Friday evening, more than 50 local blood drives were canceled, and as of Saturday morning, the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center had less than a…

The South Texas Blood & Tissue Center is putting out an urgent call for blood donations.Center officials report the blood demand from area hospitals is…

At the start of 2019 the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center reported dangerously low levels of donated blood. During the summer months blood supply can dip…

Two-year-old Zainab Mughal has neuroblastoma and will need blood transfusions during her treatment. But the little girl has a genetic variation in her…