The demand from hospitals has outpaced the supply of blood, the Red Cross said.

A new program is making waves in emergency medical care by equipping paramedics with the ability to provide blood transfusions before patients reach the hospital. This initiative is made possible ...

The Ventura County Fire Department has launched an emergency blood transfusion program, equipping its first rescue ambulances with whole blood that officials say could help save lives. In the pilot ...

Our Blood Institute says recent winter weather in the state has made an extreme blood shortage even worse.According to the ...

Is autologous blood transfusion safe and effective? The authors compared 47 trauma patients whose blood had been collected at the time of surgery with a similar group of trauma patients whose ...

Cobb County Fire and Emergency Services (CCFES) performed the county's first-ever pre-hospital blood transfusion on a trauma patient. The transfusion involved administering red blood cells and fresh ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

Extreme cold and snowy conditions have disrupted normal blood donation efforts in southeast Wisconsin.

SPRINGVILLE — The Springville Fire Department turned its advanced care program up a notch, now providing emergency blood transfusions to victims who suffer blood loss at the scene of an emergency.

On-site blood transfusions began for three Sauk County EMS services in May, and all three already have used the new emergency-care tool. Dells-Delton EMS, Reedsburg Ambulance and Baraboo Area Fire and ...