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Donating money isn’t the only way you can help people. You can also give your blood.

Of the approximately 62 percent of Americans eligible to donate blood, only 3 percent do so each year. But someone...

Traumatically injured women are considerably less likely to receive whole blood transfusions within the first four hours of injury compared to men, despite whole blood being associated with reduced...

Humans and mice exposed to long-wavelength red light had lower rates of blood clots that can cause heart attacks, lung damage and strokes, according to research led by University of Pittsburgh School...

Clinicians are widely adopting RhD-positive low titer group O whole blood (LTOWB) to treat life-threatening bleeding based on data that suggests it’s safe and saves lives. However, if a trauma patient...

Fred Rogers urged us to look for helpers during dark times.

It's difficult to imagine anything "darker" than catastrophic injuries in children, but Pittsburghers need to look no farther than Oakland...

PITTSBURGH — The No. 1 cause of death in children is trauma. There are an estimated 2,000 pediatric deaths from traumatic bleeding in the U.S. each year that are preventable with optimal care, yet...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) —Blood shortages and storage problems continue to cause headaches and cost lives.

That's why Pittsburgh is joining the push to create something better.

KDKA-TV spent the day in the...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are part of a multimillion-dollar, federally funded program looking to solve a problem that has long-plagued scientists and surgeons: how to manufacture...