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Mallory Moreau (left) with Katherine Agliata (right), the first two sixteen year olds to donate proudly displaying their first time donor stickers.
Current News
| The Rhode Island Blood Center began accepting 16-year-old donors February 1, beginning with a blood drive at LaSalle Academy More than twenty 16-year-olds were scheduled to donate at the LaSalle drive. Legislation was passed last summer and signed by the Governor in the fall that lowered the blood donation age from 17 to 16. |
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| Rhode Island Blood Center to begin accepting 16-year-old donors on February 1, 2010 Beginning February 1, sixteen year olds will have the opportunity to donate blood in Rhode Island, lowering the eligibility age for donation by a year and immediately increasing the pool of eligible donors, while helping to instill the positive habit of blood donation earlier. | ||
| Young artists have an opportunity to possibly save thousands of lives! The Rhode Island Blood Center has announced a T-shirt design contest and recognition program that will acknowledge one gifted artist and hundreds of students that donate blood three times a year. |
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| Ten years ago, Marangelien Jolet, mother of four young boys, was certain she would die. Diagnosed with leukemia in her native Puerto Rico, she came to New England for treatment, and has now been in remission for more than five years. | ||
| Several multi-gallon blood donors were recognized recently at an Electric Boat Company blood drive that not only celebrated individual achievements, but the company’s ongoing support since the Rhode Island Blood Center was founded in 1979. | ||
| Rhode Island High School Students saving thousands of lives Several high schools in Rhode Island are being honored for their exemplary performances in hosting and running blood drives in which students, faculty and staff have literally saved thousands of lives. In the last five years, blood donations at high schools have increased by 67 percent. |
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| Flu shot doesn’t prevent donations! Several donors have questioned whether they are eligible to donate soon after receiving the flu shot. You are eligible to donate the same day you receive the shot, as long as you have no fever and are symptom free. That also applies to the H1N1 flu shot. | ||
| New process to accelerate cord blood collections! A change in the process of how mothers are informed of the opportunity to donate cord blood should significantly accelerate collections for the pilot public cord blood program, according to the Rhode Island Blood Center’s Chief Medical Officer. | ||
| How to participate in the cord blood program! Cord blood will be collected by the Rhode Island Blood Center staff who will be at Women & Infants Hospital during the day, Monday through Friday. Some obstetricians may also participate in the collection program. | ||
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