| Blood Banks Begin Offering Perks To Donors | KDKA-TV Pittsburgh 3/31/2008
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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.
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| Blood Drive Marks Martin Luther King's Birthday | WTAE-TV Pittsburgh 1/21/2008
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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.
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| The Richmond girls of Cranberry in a fight for life against rare leukemia | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 12/24/2007
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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.
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| Dunbar dairy farmer giving back to community | Daily Courier, Connellsville 10/12/2007
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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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| Use of umbilical cord blood pushed | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 10/8/2007
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This morning, officials at Magee-Womens Hospital will announce the Dan Berger Cord Blood Program. It is aimed at expanding options for new mothers to bank umbilical cord blood, a rich source of stem cells that can be used to treat certain cancers, sickle cell anemia and immune deficiencies.
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| Cord Blood Service to Debut | Pittsburgh Tribune Review 10/8/2007
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Women giving birth in Pittsburgh will have the option to make an altruistic decision with life-saving potential starting today. The region's first public-private umbilical cord blood collection service is being offered through Magee-Womens Hospital in Oakland, officials are expected to announce this morning.
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| 'Brighten' your day: Give Blood | Erie Times News 10/1/2007
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Crawford County commissioners want residents to roll up their sleeves to support local hospitals.
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| Blood donor-loyalty program to debut | Pittsburgh Tribune Review 9/26/2007
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The Central Blood Bank -- supplier of blood to 40 medical centers, including all of Allegheny County's hospitals --- will announce an initiative today to recruit additional blood donors.
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| Student Badly Injured In Crash Named Homecoming Queen | WTAE-TV Pittsburgh 9/24/2007
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A 17-year-old girl unable to attend her high school's homecoming due to injuries sustained in a Jefferson Hills car crash has been crowned the queen.
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| Latinos could boost blood bank supplies | Pittsburgh Tribune Review 9/20/2007
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Some public health experts think that blood banks are overlooking an important donor base: the region's small, but growing, Hispanic population.
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