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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – For the first time ever, Kentucky Blood Center will be accepting blood donations at the Kentucky State Fair. Kentucky Blood Center (KBC) will be located in the Health Horizons building and will be collecting blood from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. every day of the f

ST. PAUL, Minn. and NEW YORK, Aug. 2, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Innovative Blood Resources (IBR) and New York Blood Center (NYBC) announced today that they are combining their operations to create one of the nation’s leading blood centers, serving patients and hospita

Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave 400,000 dollars to Alabama to fight Zika.  The goal is to give real-time data about the Zika epidemic as it unfolds.  Right now Lifesouth Community Blood Centers are taking steps to prevent the spread of Zika though blood donat

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ)- Judy Dube was greeted by a sign at the Kentucky Blood Center, Tuesday morning letting her know if she’d traveled to a specific area of Florida in the past 28-days, she’d need to hold off on donating blood. That sign will greet everyone looking to donate blood af

LEXINGTON, KY – The Kentucky Blood Center has announced that the FDA recommends that all blood centers throughout the country begin deferring donors who have traveled to Miami- Dade and Broward counties in Florida in the past four weeks. There has been a local outbreak of Zika virus i

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) — Lots of people attending Comic-Con dress up as superheroes, but some attendees got to be real heroes. That is because they were saving lives by donating blood. The San Diego Blood Bank is holding a special blood drive to coincide with Comic-Con. This comes as the Re

The NIH has awarded $55 million during the current federal fiscal year toward partnerships and infrastructure to launch a key component of President Barack Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI)—a research cohort of 1 million-plus Americans from which to glean data. NIH said the

Three patients died after Juno changed pre-treatment medicines FDA lifted study hold after Juno reverted to original design    Juno Therapeutics Inc. soared as much as 26 percent, the most in a year, after U.S. regulators allowed the company to resume a clinical trial of its lead

As scores lay injured in Florida hospitals after the Orlando shooting, potential donors inundated blood banks, offering what they could. For some, however, the hourslong wait ended in disappointment. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has strict guidelines about who can donate bloo