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| UpdatedAn exhibition at the Melbourne Science Gallery explores why humans are both attracted to and repulsed by blood — and it is not for the faint-hearted.
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| UpdatedThe Red Cross Blood Service has defended its decision to regionalise blood collection in New South Wales — despite calls in State Parliament for services to be returned.
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An Australian Red Cross campaign for O-negative blood results in 500 appointments in just 24 hours across Australia, however an additional 2,500 donors are needed over the next fortnight to meet national patient needs.
Topics: health, blood, community-and-society, charities, brisbane-4000, australia
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An unprecedented number of blood donors are cancelling their appointments with Australian Red Cross, seeing stocks of the "universal blood type" dwindle to critical levels.
Topics: blood, health, charities, community-and-society, australia, qld
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| UpdatedThe lucrative international trade in blood and plasma.
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| UpdatedWhen Logan mother Terese Trinh rolled up her sleeves to give blood for the first time in 2014, she had no idea it was her own life that would need saving.
Topics: health, diseases-and-disorders, people, blood, leukaemia, human-interest, logan-central-4114, qld
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| UpdatedThere are 29 million donors on worldwide bone marrow registries, so why do so many cancer patients end up in a desperate needle-in-a-haystack search for a potential cure?
Topics: blood, diseases-and-disorders, leukaemia, perth-6000, australia
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| UpdatedFor the first time, blood is being collected and frozen, in a trial by the Australian Red Cross, for the Defence Force to deploy in conflict zones.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, defence-forces, health, blood, charities, community-and-society, science-and-technology, australia
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| UpdatedThe CEO of Port Moresby General Hospital says reports of a blood shortage are incorrect.
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| UpdatedTwenty per cent of blood donors cancel their appointments over the summer holiday period, creating a shortfall at a time when blood is needed the most, the Red Cross says.
Topics: health, community-and-society, diseases-and-disorders, blood, melbourne-3000, vic
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Seven-year-old Sadie Aird is one of hundreds of patients relying on blood transfusions, but the Red Cross says the number of donors this festive season is 'worryingly low'.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, blood, cancer, health, charities, community-and-society, sa, adelaide-5000
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A young Melbourne rower and carpenter turns his single scull into a floating billboard for the Red Cross.
Topics: people, charities, blood, rowing, advertising, melbourne-3000
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The Victorian Government calls on its federal counterpart to end the ban on men who have sex with men from donating blood.
Topics: blood, health-policy, sexual-health, australia
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A new Mackay-based blood testing machine, that is the first of its kind in regional Queensland, could save lives and reduce the need for patients to go to the ICU, according to an intensive care specialist.
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Have you spotted some missing letters on signs, landmarks and brands? It is part of a global campaign called 'Missing Type' to highlight the main blood types in need of more donations.
Topics: health, blood, community-and-society, australia
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The growing fashion for body art is affecting blood donations, with thousands of recently inked people being put on a waitlist by the Red Cross every year.
Topics: blood, community-and-society, volunteers, human-interest, perth-6000
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| UpdatedThe first purpose-built accommodation for blood cancer patients receiving treatment in Canberra is expected to welcome guests within weeks.
Topics: blood, healthcare-facilities, charities, charities-and-community-organisations, community-and-society, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedThe Red Cross Blood Service in Tasmania is under pressure to drop its ban on accepting gay male donors as it calls for more donations to fill a winter shortage.
Topics: blood, sexuality, sexual-health, diseases-and-disorders, aids-and-hiv, states-and-territories, tas, hobart-7000, launceston-7250
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| UpdatedFor someone holding a stress ball in his hand, regular blood donor Alan Hutchison looks surprisingly relaxed.
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