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Mountaineer Blood Drive

West Virginia University, it’s students and alumni, and the Morgantown community continue to celebrate Homecoming Week 2022. Thursday featured a blood drive with past Mountaineer mascots. More than 20 former mascots returned to campus for the Mountaineer Mascot Reunion, a three-day ...

Local Red Cross supporting Hurricane Ian response

The Red Cross for the Central Appalachia Region has nine local volunteers already on the ground in Florida as well as five others traveling once it is safe to do so. Four local Red Cross emergency response vehicles are traveling south on Friday with two responders each. The organization also ...

National blood shortage at crisis levels

January marks National Blood Donor Month and this year the American Red Cross (ARC) is facing a national blood crisis, seeing its worst shortage in over a decade, affecting hospitals across the nation.  In recent weeks, blood centers across the country have reported less than a ...

More of us need to donate blood

If you’ve ever been short on blood, you know what it is to feel rotten. Too little blood coursing through your body can leave your head pounding and your lungs laboring. Simple physical tasks like climbing a flight of stairs may become impossible feats of endurance. And if you were ...

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