Central Blood Bank in the News


Recent media coverage about Central Blood Bank.


Blood Banks Begin Offering Perks To DonorsKDKA-TV Pittsburgh  3/31/2008
The Central Blood Bank has come up with a rewards program. When donors give, they get points to buy gift cards and merchandise through the blood bank.

Blood Drive Marks Martin Luther King's BirthdayWTAE-TV Pittsburgh  1/21/2008
Residents in the Pittsburgh area found a number of different ways to celebrate King's birthday, all of them focusing on the continuation of what he started. At St. Benedict the Moor in the Hill District, a blood drive was held. Organizers said not everyone celebrates King's birthday, so the blood drive is a way for all races and religions to come together.

The Richmond girls of Cranberry in a fight for life against rare leukemiaPittsburgh Post-Gazette  12/24/2007
Sydney, 4, and Lauren, 2, both have acute lymphoblastic leukemia, an "extremely unusual" occurrence among siblings who are not identical twins, said their physician, Dr. A. Kim Ritchey, chief of pediatric hematology-oncology at Children's Hospital.

Dunbar dairy farmer giving back to communityDaily Courier, Connellsville  10/12/2007
A Dunbar dairy farmer and his family are organizing a blood drive in hopes of giving back to the community who donated blood to him when he was suffering from cancer.


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