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After Seven Surgeries, Three-Time Blood Recipient Celebrates 1st Birthday

Three of Katie Brown’s first four children were all born before their due dates, so she expected her fifth would also arrive slightly ahead of schedule. But that’s about all anyone could have predicted about young Merrick. No one could have imagined he would have a stroke while in the womb, causing some of his […]

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Dickerson Park Zoo’s giraffe saves lives through blood donation

Giving blood to help a complete stranger is one of the most inspirational things a human can do. The Dickerson Park Zoo has another lifesaving blood donor — and he’s one you can really look up to.

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‘He May Not Have Survived Without It’: Transfusion Helps Joplin Boy Overcome Life-Threatening Infection

As a physician who specializes in emergency medicine, Dr. Josh Brueggemann has lost count of the number of times that he has ordered blood transfusions for patients at his southeast Kansas hospital. But he’ll never forget the donor who helped save his three-year-old son.

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20 Years After Lifesaving Transfusion, Blood Recipient Working to Save Others

Born 13 weeks premature, Brystol Bates needed two lifesaving blood transfusions within the first six weeks of her life. She received the first of them just one day after she was born. Now a 21-year-old junior at the University of Kansas, Brystol is committed to making a difference in the lives of other people – […]

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‘I Wasn’t Supposed to Make It’: Arkansas Man Survives Leukemia Thanks to 38 Transfusions

If you ask him, Craig Koning isn’t supposed to be alive right now. By the time doctors finally diagnosed a mystery illness that had been plaguing him for more than three months, the Bella Vista, Arkansas, resident was days away from succumbing to acute myeloid leukemia. As he and his wife sat in a doctor’s […]

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