For children with leukemia, the fight depends not only on doctors and medicine, but also on strangers who are willing to donate blood and join the stem cell registry.

Every Friday, local volunteers pack care boxes for deployed troops. This holiday season, they’re asking neighbors to help by sponsoring a box. Here’s how.

Working full-time and having insurance has not insulated Ashaki Sypher's family from teetering on financial collapse. Her ...

The chamber is essential for treating pressure-related issues, including decompression sickness and is also a life-saving ...

This holiday season, volunteers who give also receive, especially those who donate blood with Carter BloodCare. From Monday until Christmas Day, O-positive donors receive a $25 e-gift card for each ...

Beginning in 2026, tax filers who claim the standard deduction may be allowed to take a new above-the-line deduction for cash contributions to qualifying charities. You will not need to itemize ...

During pregnancy, the umbilical cord connects a developing fetus to the placenta. The placenta is an organ within a pregnant woman's womb. It provides oxygen and nutrients to a growing baby, and ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A fundraiser is being planned for November 15 for a local mother of three young girls who was ...

The Red Cross is facing a drop in blood and platelet donations this fall — a critical time to ensure lifesaving blood products are available for patients over the holidays. Donors of all blood types — ...

A heart valve transplant recipient has lent her voice to a call for more heart donations to heart valve banks. The NHS could not supply around one in five (20%) of heart valve requests from hospitals ...

OHIO — It’s no secret that blood donations help save countless lives every day. In fact, it’s estimated that every two seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood and platelets. Oftentimes, those ...