Stories: Canadian Blood Services

Join our celebration of Cord Blood Awareness Month this July by reading and sharing these five stories

‘I had this sinking feeling that I wasn’t going to get the chance to watch my newborn daughter grow up’

Colin Dowler would almost certainly have died without transfusions of O-negative blood, delivered by paramedics who arrived by air ambulance

Then, less than a year into new fatherhood, Adam Coletta needed a second transplant — this time from an unrelated donor

Donating stem cells can save a life

Sanjay Prajapati donated stem cells as a partial match, as an agonizing search for more suitable donors came up empty

Jahnis Gillan will never forget her first meeting with the stem cell donor who saved her life

How we’re using social science to better understand why some communities encounter barriers to donating blood and how we can work to address existing challenges.

With a family history of kidney disease, Angelica Rotundo knew she’d need a transplant one day. She found a living donor in her husband.

We analyze that tiny sample of cells from inside your mouth for some specific genetic characteristics