Derek Taylor first donated platelets to help a fellow marathon runner in her battle with leukemia. Derek's friend was about to undergo a bone marrow transplant...

Kimberly Zambito loved her grandfather, who died of cancer. He is often in her mind when she is donating platelets. What's a little stick with a needle compared to the pain people with cancer feel...

Two years ago, Jennifer Bohac took a friend's advice and donated source plasma for the first time. She's been doing it ever since. She also has recruited ten other plasma donors...

I hadn't donated blood in quite a few years, but when I was called by the Rhode Island Blood Center last summer, I thought it would be a good time to give and set an example for my teenage children...

Norbert Doyle's surgery turned out to be more complicated than anyone had anticipated. The surgeon expected to repair an aortic aneurysm...

In 1993 I had a severe case of the flu. Two weeks later, I noticed numbness and tingling in my feet, which over the course of the next 18 hours progressed up my legs and arms...