Stories: Canadian Blood Services

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‘An opportunity to dream’ for one young woman with sickle cell disease

May 13, 2020
Stem cells are giving health and hope to more patients than ever, including some with sickle cell disease
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‘It’s important to just keep heading toward our goals’

May 12, 2020
Meet Marylee Dudgeon, a lab assistant working through the pandemic in Newfoundland and Labrador
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‘This is what we’re called to do’

May 8, 2020
Dora Lopes-Carvalho and her team are matchmakers for patients and the blood components they need.
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Father and son donate convalescent plasma for use in national clinical trial

May 6, 2020
Richard and Patrick Carl were diagnosed with COVID-19 after a family ski trip to Colorado.
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‘I enjoy being counted on’

May 5, 2020
Meet Damon Gyurics, a driver in London who is helping to meet patient need throughout the pandemic
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Meet our first COVID-19 convalescent plasma donor

May 4, 2020
Jerry Glubisz lived through COVID-19, then donated plasma for a clinical trial which aims to help others with the illness
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‘When things go bad you have to help people’

April 29, 2020
Meet Chris Peters, a registered nurse who is working through the pandemic at our donor centre in Moncton
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The need goes on #15: Olympic athlete donates blood for the first time

April 24, 2020
Cancelled season provides rare opportunity for Evan Dunfee to give blood
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Celebrating volunteers during the pandemic and beyond

April 23, 2020
Meet three siblings in Charlottetown who are supporting Canada’s Lifeline
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An Indigenous stem cell donor’s journey

April 22, 2020
Melissa Deleary got the call to donate many years after she joined Canada’s stem cell registry