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Partner eNews August 2020
- Beeton, Ontario school keeps up four-year streak of committed blood donation, despite COVID-19
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Partner eNews January 2018
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Partner eNews April 2018
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- Partners For Life Champion knows the importance of blood donation in Red Deer, AB.
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- Sobeys in Charlottetown, PEI Believes Blood Donation is Part of Being a Good Corporate Citizen.
- The Grand River Hospital in Kitchener, Ontario support their Staff in Living their Values.
- The Ledcor Group of Companies in Edmonton Alberta Collects 117% of their Target.
- Well.ca Joins Canadian Blood Services as a New Partner to Support Donor Health
- Plasma’s latest superpower could offer a much-needed treatment to COVID-19 patients
- Preparations underway to boost plasma collections to meet patient needs
- Runner and active mom from Surrey, BC, celebrates the blood donors who saved her life
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- Stem cells save lives, but finding a match can take a community — sometimes a global one
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Partner eNews August 2022
- BAPS Charities, a new national partner with Canadian Blood Services, is working to save lives through their “In the Joy of Others” campaign
- Evolving eligibility criteria for gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men
- Freelandt Caldwell Reilly LLP celebrates one year as a Partner for Life
- MTO Shahmaghsoudi School of Islamic Sufism® is dedicated to serving the community
- One company’s dedication to Canada’s Lifeline is paying off for patients across the country
- Plasma donation gets a big boost from RBC
- Two Moncton jiu-jitsu teams host “Blood Off the Mats” blood donation event to support patients
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Partner eNews December 2020
- Annual Thanksgiving drive in memory of an Ontario physician
- From street to screen: How one proud partner took its annual fundraising event virtual, to support patients during COVID-19
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- Professional hockey players team up to inspire stem cell registration
- Rotary clubs roll up their sleeves to support donor centres
- To honour Remembrance Day, this master corporal suggests donating blood
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Partner eNews January 2019
- Build your corporate culture of giving
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- Cops for Cancer take support to the next level
- Erik Gudbranson, defenseman for the Vancouver Canucks and Hockey Gives Blood team up to promote stem cell donation
- It was a November to Remember for Hamilton Police Services
- National #Partnersforlife January 2019
- Nova Scotia High School rallies to support New Glasgow donor centre
- Sikh Nation supports blood donation with volunteers and donors
- The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) 2018 RIDE Campaign partners with Canadian Blood Services in Eastern Ontario
- This winter #JoinTheLifeline: register as a stem cell donor
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Partner eNews January 2020
- Blood Donation by Sikh Nation
- Celebrating the 20th anniversary of our partnership with Sikh Nation
- Donors and recipients celebrated World Kindness Day coast-to-coast
- First Responders in Niagara roll up their sleeves to save lives!
- Meeting patient needs: securing Canada’s plasma supply
- National Monthly Lifeline Partners #partnersforlife
- Sirens for Life in PEI
- Vancouver physiotherapist looks to “amplify his impact” in honour of his late mother
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Partner eNews January 2022
- B.C. mom rallies her family and community to donate in memory of her daughter
- Canadian Blood Services welcomes it first new partner in Atlantic Canada in 2021, Athletics NorthEAST
- Canadian Blood Services’ annual report available now
- Counting on our Partners! How a small firm is making big gains by investing in the community through blood donations.
- Financial donation from KPMG Foundation helps fund research for plasma innovation
- Partners for Life program connects employees across Canada
- Stepping up plasma collection to better meet Canada’s plasma needs
- The Niagara Malayalee Association
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Partner eNews January 2023
- Be Bloody Positive’s Partners for Life team is making a difference, one trip at a time
- Big team of employees at EV Logistics makes an even bigger impact in the community through blood donation
- Edmonton Elks and Mike Beaudry team up to save lives through stem cell and blood donation
- Employees and customers of Orkin Canada all take part in saving lives
- Giving 3 in 2023 will make all the difference
- Kingston’s MOVE 98.3 helps give patients a second chance
- New ferritin testing program may help prevent low iron stores in donors
- Partners for Life are needed to restore blood supplies and grow the plasma supply
- Partners for Life champion, Luce Lepage, is committed to encouraging plasma donation in her community.
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Partner eNews January 2024
- A daughter’s survival inspires this dad to join Canada’s Lifeline
- Bill “The Thrill” #77: from car race champion to Partners for Life champion
- CAA Niagara: saving lives monthly
- CCRM staff rolled up their sleeves for their employer’s inaugural holiday blood drive
- Heart & Sole: The Dylan Kalambay Story
- New online platform makes community fundraising easy
- The positive power of social media!
- Vancouver Island University nursing students — a shining example
- We’re here to help you kick-start the year
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Partner eNews July 2018
- A tragic accident is the beginning of a new organization
- Blood, sweat and cheers
- Mothers helping patients while giving birth to new life
- Our new collection site in Toronto welcomes new partners
- Thanks to you #MissingType was an amazing success!
- The 2019 Canada Winter Games host society gives back
- The Nova Scotia HOG chapter rolls into Halifax to give life
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Partner eNews July 2019
- A recipient and her father become blood donor champions!
- Empire Life adopt donor centre in Kingston, Ontario in honour of one of their own
- National #Partnersforlife July 2019
- Sirens for Life – Emergency Personnel Roll Up their Sleeves to Kick Off Annual Recruitment Event
- Team CIBC celebrates National Blood Donor Week by donating in more ways than one
- The Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Sciences adopts the PEI donor centre in April for Lab Week
- Together Taber Saves Lives
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Partner eNews March 2021
- Canada Life partners with us for national campaigns to recruit blood, plasma and stem cell donors
- Canadian Blood Services proudly celebrates more than a decade of partnership with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
- Dedicated donor and champion honours his wife’s memory with 100 donations
- Help inspire others to become organ and tissue donors.
- How a newborn can be a lifesaver
- International blood donors honour Nova Scotian
- Small company found way to make big impact during pandemic
- Stem cell registry highlighted on Breakfast Television
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Partner eNews October 2018
- Brian Jessel BMW dealership in Burnaby opens their showroom floor to host mobile donor centre
- Church of Christ in Calgary adopt holiday Mondays to help with urgent need.
- KinCanada wins the National Partnership Award at National Honouring our Lifeblood event in Ottawa.
- Mississauga, Ontario activates its Sirens for Life to help hospital patients in need.
- Monthly National #Partnersforlife October 2018
- Partners across Canada come together to support World Marrow Donor Day
- The Newfoundland & Labrador Beard & Moustache MerB’ys fish for donors in St. John’s.
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Partner eNews October 2019
- Destination Toyota in BC is your destination for donating blood.
- Financial gift helps prevent seasonal slump in blood donations
- Meet Alexa - NextGen Lifeline volunteer and former cancer patient
- National monthly lifeline partners #partnersforlife
- Newfoundland and Labrador welcomes Genoa Design International
- Over 125 newcomers unite in Windsor to donate blood
- The Brick Distribution centre in Winnipeg rallies to join Canada’s Lifeline
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Partner eNews October 2023
- A little more about the Hutterite communities in southern Alberta
- A thousand lives forever changed — thanks to the Kidney Paired Donation program
- Celebrating 25 years, thanks to your support
- Dedicated partners help donors travel across land and sea to give
- Did you know your support could be doubled by your employer?
- Graduating Halifax students and parents come together to give blood
- So you think you can’t donate? Check to be sure, to help us help patients
- Wilfrid Laurier University takes Partners for Life pledge to new heights with incredible local champion
- Winnipeg radio host encourages listeners to “Swab with Dilly”
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Partner eNews October 2024
- Abbotsford plasma playoffs summer 2024 winner: Longboard Architectural
- Carol’s CUREsader’s Partners for Life Team is making all the difference in the lives of others…
- Comox Valley Kickers – Champions on the field and heroes off
- First annual Business Network International plasma challenge in Lethbridge
- Giving thanks to partners and champions for their ongoing donations!
- Meet three transplant recipients competing at the 10th Canadian Transplant Games
- Program facilitating kidney transplants for hardest-to-match patients reaches milestone
- The Haines Mile Pub gives back to the community
- The Swami Gurbachan Lal Charitable Society’s blood donations grow across Ontario
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- #TogetherApart to give blood in St. John’s
- 1,000 lifesaving connections: Canadian Blood Services’ Kidney Paired Donation program hits 1,000 transplant milestone
- 1,000 of the hardest-to-match patients have received a kidney transplant thanks to cross-Canada organ sharing program
- 10 Things to consider when planning a successful staycation
- 17,000 Volunteers are Partners in Saving Lives
- 17,000 reasons to say thank you
- 25 years after the Krever commission, our commitment to patients remains
- A roadmap to guide our reconciliation journey with Indigenous peoples and communities
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- An act of love inspires Ally Blood Donor clinics
- An update on our journey to build a more inclusive blood system
- Assembly of First Nations Passes Resolution Encouraging Aboriginal People to Become Potential Stem Cell Donors
- Attendance lags at blood and plasma donor centres; over 150,000 open appointments need to be filled this summer
- Banking of cord blood for transplant temporarily suspended
- Blood Donors Provide Proof that Miracles Still Exist
- Blood and plasma collection disrupted by weather conditions: donors needed now
- Blood donation waiting period for men who have sex with men reduced to one year
- Blood donations are essential during COVID-19
- Blood donors are helping us prepare for future pandemics
- Blueprint for a National, Integrated Organs and Tissues System Released
- Blueprint for greater security of immunoglobulins for patients in Canada
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- Building New Hope for Patients
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- Canada’s Lifeline in Need of Support to Save Lives During the Season of Giving
- Canada’s Living Donor Paired Exchange Kidney Registry Hits the Century Mark
- Canada’s blood supply needs a boost this summer following a surge in demand
- Canadian Blood Services Celebrates National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week
- Canadian Blood Services Issues Rallying Cry to Canadians
- Canadian Blood Services Recall Notice
- Canadian Blood Services Releases A Report to Canadians 2011/2012: The Bigger Picture
- Canadian Blood Services Releases A Report to Canadians 2012/2013: Aligning Our Goals
- Canadian Blood Services Voluntarily Recalls Blood Products from Regina-area clinics
- Canadian Blood Services and the City of Hamilton “No Paid Plasma Zone” Resolution
- Canadian Blood Services announces closure of Thunder Bay Plasma Centre
- Canadian Blood Services delivers apology to 2SLGBTQIA+ communities
- Canadian Blood Services does not, and will not, pay donors
- Canadian Blood Services is asking people across Canada to save lives this holiday season: Give 3 in 2023
- Canadian Blood Services is rallying people across the country to shine a light on the need for new donors
- Canadian Blood Services launches refreshed strategic approach
- Canadian Blood Services lends a helping hand to Hema Quebec as a partner in health care this holiday season
- Canadian Blood Services mourns passing of friend and colleague
- Canadian Blood Services needs blood donors now
- Canadian Blood Services network outage resolved
- Canadian Blood Services reaches agreement to settle Human Rights Tribunal complaint
- Canadian Blood Services recognizes the passing of Justice Horace Krever
- Canadian Blood Services reduces restrictions for blood donation
- Canadian Blood Services seeks to update blood donor eligibility through latest Health Canada submission
- Canadian Blood Services teams up with Department of National Defence and Veterans Affairs Canada to support soldiers in the field
- Canadian Blood Services thanks the 17,000 Volunteers who selflessly dedicated 225,000 hours to help save lives
- Canadian Blood Services to Expand Deferral Policy for vCJD
- Canadian Blood Services to remove eligibility criteria specific to men who have sex with men
- Canadian Blood Services welcomes new CFO, Jennifer Camelon
- Canadian Blood Services will implement a two-site National Contact Centre
- Canadian Blood Services' statement on paid versus unpaid plasma donors
- Canadian Blood Services’ CEO Dr. Graham Sher has been named chair of the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
- Canadian Blood Services’ statement on Pride Month
- Canadian Blood Services’ statement on issues identified at a private cord blood bank in Alberta
- Canadian Blood Services’ statement on story about organ donation in Kentucky
- Canadian High School Students Rally to Deliver Gifts to Hospital Patients
- Canadians urged to donate blood and plasma as blood agency faces summer of unprecedented events
- Chiefs Adopt Resolution to Support First Nations OneMatch Stem Cell and Marrow Network
- Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro for Canada’s New National Public Cord Blood Bank
- Clinics scheduled in Calgary and Lethbridge this weekend cancelled due to flooding
- Cord blood banking resumes Oct. 17
- Cord blood collection resumes in Vancouver
- Donate joy: lifesaving blood and plasma donations will give families a reason to celebrate this holiday season
- Donor eligibility revisited
- Donors celebrated for their loyalty to patients during National Blood Donor Week, June 13-19
- Don’t wait to be affected to give back, says two-time leukemia survivor and blood, platelet and cord blood recipient
- Dr. Graham Sher elected president of the AABB
- Duty of care to dying patient is first priority
- Education Matters: Celebrating 25 years of organ donation awareness
- Empty beds strain blood inventory
- Ensuring access to immunoglobulins in Canada
- Every donation matters following the nationwide Rogers outage
- Evolving eligibility criteria for gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men
- Expanding plasma eligibility for gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men
- Former chair of the board, Dr. Verna Skanes, has passed
- Give Someone like Lauren a Holiday Miracle
- Growing domestic plasma supply for Canadian patients
- Her Last Project premieres on CBC, Oct. 15
- Historic change opens the door for more blood and plasma donors: human variant of ‘mad cow’ eligibility rule gone for good
- Honouring donors during National Blood Donor Week with gratitude from the patients they've saved
- Immediate need to fill blood donation appointments continues through the holidays
- It's now Dr. Hollins
- Join Canada’s Lifeline During the Season of Giving
- Kilimanjaro Climbers Hope to ‘Move Mountains’ for Stem Cell Patients
- La Société canadienne du sang lance la campagne #NouvelleÉcosseForte (14-31 août)
- Local Blood Donors, Volunteers and Partner Groups receive National Honours from Canadian Blood Services
- Mark Green Shirt Day by talking to your family about organ donation
- Media Statement - Ottawa bus and train accident
- National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week 2016
- New and returning donors needed to support patients through Omicron
- New director appointed to Canadian Blood Services board
- New directors appointed to Canadian Blood Services board
- New donor centre announced for Scarborough to open by spring 2023
- New federal funding to support cancer cell therapy research
- New patient resources developed by Canadian Blood Services help families share the constant need for more donors to join the stem cell registry
- Next steps for increasing Canada’s domestic supply chain for lifesaving immunoglobulins
- Number of blood donors plummets during COVID-19 to lowest point in a decade
- One country, one strategy: how harmonizing Canada’s vaccination approach could better prepare us for the next pandemic
- Organ recipients like Stephanie Jolink encourage Canadians to register their intent
- Planned maintenance on Sunday, December 10, 2023
- Plasma and the blood system supply chain
- Pressing need for lifesaving blood and plasma donations, yet only 1 in 10 plan to give over the holidays: Survey
- Rapid growth in the demand for blood products could cause national supply to dwindle
- Reflecting on Black History Month and Canadian Blood Services’ focus on diversity, equity and inclusion
- Researchers find unexpected association between younger donor age, female sex and transfusion outcomes
- Response to Public Interest in our Plasma Operations
- Response to blood donor eligibility change in the UK
- Saving lives here and around the world with Canadian Blood Services’ Cord Blood Bank
- Seeking Board Directors
- Supporting patients together through Omicron
- The incredible power of transplant brings athletes to Ottawa for the 10th Canadian Transplant Games
- Third annual Green Shirt Day in honour of Humboldt Broncos defenseman Logan Boulet encourages organ donation registration
- Three new directors and a new chair appointed to Canadian Blood Services board
- Too many prospective stem cell donors decline to help patients when asked
- World unites for Tribute to Life
- ‘Acts of kindness to repair the world’: Canadian Blood Services remembers Dr. Elianna Saidenberg
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- Whole blood: longer holding times before leukoreduction may be a safe to explore option
- Intravenous albumin is not associated with improved outcomes in cardiac surgery patients
- A different way to look at red blood cell quality
- A model for change: predicting the impact of system-wide improvements
- A proposed mechanism for vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia
- A sweet solution for infant transfusions?
- ABO…K? Investigating if young females need more than ABO-compatible blood
- An immune cell secretion may protect patients from transfusion-related lung injury
- Bath time for blood cells: improving the red blood cell washing process
- Convalescent plasma is an ineffective treatment for patients with COVID-19
- Data mining 2: Digging for deeper understanding of donors and transfusion outcome
- Data mining: Digging for deeper understanding of blood components and transfusion outcomes
- Designing a new and improved drug to dissolve blood clots
- Developing more inclusive deferral policies for blood and plasma donors
- Dodging disinfection: biofilm-forming skin bacteria can resist disinfectants
- Doubling the 30-minute rule without compromising red blood cell quality and safety
- Evaluating infusion pump safety for red blood cell transfusions
- Fighting inflammation with inflammation
- Hijacked: The role of platelets in dengue virus infection revealed
- How do Special Forces Operations access quality blood products for military personnel?
- How do bacteria behave during platelet production?
- How does consolidation of blood production and distribution services impact hospitals?
- Improving outcomes for patients with autoimmune platelet disorders
- Improving the usefulness of a laboratory tool to match donors and patients
- It’s a numbers game: improving cord blood stem cell transplantation success
- Making the cut: Protein breakdown in platelets during storage
- Mastering the monocyte monolayer assay
- Modeling risk to ensure safety when considering changes to blood testing
- Natural killers: when cells go wrong
- Novel discovery reveals new diagnostic markers and treatment targets for bleeding disorder
- Older blood as good as new: no harmful effects of storage time before transfusion
- One in a million: Modelling rare blood flow
- Pathogen inactivation for safer blood transfusion: What are the limitations?
- Patient blood group impacts susceptibility to IVIg-associated hemolysis
- Perioperative treatment for patients with immune thrombocytopenia: Eltrombopag vs IVIG
- Plasma fibronectin: keeping the delicate balance between bleeding and clotting
- Plasma residues enhance bacterial attachment to platelet storage bags
- Plasma: what’s in the bag?
- Platelet Transfusion in Children with Cancer
- Platelet protein GPIbα plays an important role in regulating platelet-mediated production of thrombopoietin by the liver
- Platelets are Immune Cells!
- Platelets vs. blood vessels: what causes bleeding in fetuses and newborns with FNAIT?
- Protecting our life blood: iron deficiency in Canadian blood donors
- Red cell irradiation – time for a change? (Research Unit)
- Research into TRALI therapies generates results that are a TAD interesting!
- Risk of HIV did not change with expanding eligibility criteria for gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men
- Searching for safer red blood cell bags for pediatric recipients (Research Unit)
- Sex-mismatched red blood cell transfusions and mortality
- Should patients receive HLA-selected platelets?
- Single site solution: Engineering novel antibodies for the treatment of ITP
- Supporting evidence to change regulations regarding the storage of cryosupernatant plasma
- Treating bleeding during cardiac surgery: Is prothrombin complex concentrate a substitute for plasma?
- Treatment and detection of vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT)
- United we stand, divided we fall: using monoclonal antibody combinations to improve drug effectiveness
- Using immunocamouflage to fool the immune system
- Using immunocamouflage to increase transplantation safety
- What if the shelf life of red blood cells was less than 42 days?
- What is the risk of a transfusion-transmitted infection?
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- Whole blood for transfusion: development work supports operational feasibility
- 'Vital Bonds' follows real-life stories of organ donation in Canada
- 1,000 kidney transplants for Canadian patients!
- 12th Earl W. Davie Symposium: a focus on the next-generation of blood researchers
- 12th annual Norman Bethune Symposium showcases breadth of ongoing research
- 2020 Surveillance Report shows blood supply remained above target in first year of pandemic
- 2020-2021 annual progress report – A year marked by agility, collaboration, innovation, and excellence
- 2021 Lifetime Achievement Awards recognize eminent Canadian researchers
- 2021-2022 lay writing competition - submit your “science behind the scenes” stories!
- 2022 CBR summer students tour the netCAD Blood4Research facility
- 20th anniversary celebration at the Centre for Blood Research (CBR): commemorating two decades of historical milestones and outstanding achievements
- 50 ways to learn more about Centre for Innovation supported research
- A Place for Legal Scholarship in Organ Donation and Transplantation: My experiences under the James Kreppner Fellowship
- A Q&A with Dr. David Allan
- A Q&A with PhD candidate Ruqayyah Almizraq
- A QUEST for answers about albumin use in cardiac care
- A look back on Centre for Innovation progress in 2016-2017
- A miraculous gift, ready and waiting
- A mission to Mars caps off summer at the Centre for Blood Research
- A primer on platelets
- A spotlight interview with Dr. Sally Thomas of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service
- A spotlight on summer student research
- A summary of recent discoveries advancing the understanding and treatment of hemophilia
- A transplant journey: Meet Centre for Innovation's Everad Tilokee
- All blood is not the same
- And the award goes to…
- And the winner of the first Canadian Blood Services Dana Devine Award is…
- Announcing the winners of the Research 180 Video Competition
- Annual progress report highlights the Centre for Innovation’s impactful research, development, education and training
- Another great success for annual educational transfusion medicine symposium
- Are you tapped into all the research and education news?
- Award goes to Alana Cattapan
- BEST presidency a full-circle moment for chief scientist Dr. Dana Devine
- Battlefield blood drops – getting blood farther forward as safely as possible
- Better Now: A Q&A with Dr. Graham Sher on Dr. Danielle Martin's six big ideas to improve health care for Canadians
- Better support for families of organ donors – 20 suggestions for improvement
- Beyond matching ABO and Rh: Rare blood challenges and international cooperation
- Blood Efficiency Accelerator Award Program helping team establish national best practices for out-of-hospital transfusions
- Blood and Guts: Management of the GI Bleed
- Blood groups beyond A, B and O: what are they and do they matter?
- Blood on the Move
- Blood type hype
- BloodTechNet supports educational laboratory rotation for transplant and transfusion ‘matchmakers’
- BloodTechNet’s support of educational rotation helps lab adopt new technology
- Bringing best practices in organ donation and transplantation to Beijing
- CBR Research Day 2022: A day to celebrate summer student research
- CBR Research Day 2023: Celebrating our summer students!
- CBR Travel Awards: Attending the ISTH 2022 Congress
- CSTM 2022: A return to in-person networking & presentations
- CSTM 2023: Reflections from Canadian Blood Services research and physician trainees in transfusion medicine
- CSTM 2024: Reflections from Canadian Blood Services trainees, part 1
- CSTM 2024: Reflections from Canadian Blood Services trainees, part 2
- Calculating impacts of change
- Canadian Blood Services Research Ethics Board seeks new Volunteer Researcher Member
- Canadian Blood Services announces new Dana Devine Award
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