Blood

The Red Cross recently updated its eligibility criteria for blood donations, something that should increase the blood supply. But Dr. Walter Kelly says that's not why they did it. He says it was the right thing to do.

It really hasn’t been too long since Idaho came out from under Crisis Standards of Care.

Dr. Patrick Kinney, who spends many of his days and nights in the E.R. at St. Luke’s McCall Medical Center, has the skill and privilege of delivering babies but also faces the sadness of watching patients die due to COVID-19, has seen three primary stages of COVID vaccines.

The American Red Cross declared its first-ever national blood crisis due to the omicron surge earlier this month, and it’s affecting Idaho, where the Red Cross delivers blood to more than 30 hospitals and medical centers.

The American Red Cross is conducting experimental treatments for COVID-19 using blood plasma from recovered patients. But to figure out if the treatments…

Scientists at Colorado State University have developed a way to make sure blood transfusions don't transmit the COVID-19 virus, according to a new study.…

Amid the COVID-19 epidemic, blood drives on campuses and corporate offices across the Mountain West have been cancelled. That's led to a " severe blood...

Across the country, the American Red Cross received 61,000 fewer blood donations than usual over the last two months. That means the agency had to use…