A tube from her right arm fed blood to an apheresis machine, which filtered her red blood cells into two packages. Blood drives at businesses and community events used to fuel the blood center’s ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs around the body. They then carry carbon dioxide from around the body back to the lungs. These cells are an important component of blood. However, a range of ...

Red blood cells transport oxygen throughout your body, including to vital organs and tissues. They also help your body get rid of carbon dioxide. Too little or too many red blood cells may be ...

Human bodies make 2 million red blood cells per second. They each live for 120 days and spend that time zooming completely around the body every 20 seconds, carrying oxygen from the lungs to other ...

January is National Blood Donor Month, and Stephens Memorial Hospital will host a blood drive with Carter BloodCare from 9 ...