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Recent News Articles

Odd Amazon delivery leads to surprise meeting and a first-ever marrow registry drive at San Marcos center

April 6, 2018

GenCure, a subsidiary of BioBridge Global, helped facilitate the meeting of an Amazon shopper and an Amazon employee who had a rather strange introduction. A random addition to an Amazon package led to the pair meeting and also led to a first-of-its-kind event at the online company’s facility in San Marcos – a marrow donor registry drive. 

The drive by the GenCure Marrow Donor Program was organized by Amazon employee Kenneth Delerme, who accidentally dropped his keys and his Amazon ID card in a shipment to Nicole Shen in Houston earlier this year. Once Shen discovered the keys, she used her extensive social media network to find Delerme and return his keys and badge. 

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Blood Donations Urgently Needed

South Texas being asked to help Northeast states Pummeled by Winter Storm Quinn
March 9, 2018
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The South Texas Blood & Tissue Center (STBTC), a subsidiary of BioBridge Global, has faced a multitude of challenges in the first quarter of 2018, including a severe flu season that resulted in many donors having to cancel appointments.  

And now, the severe snowstorms bringing the Northeastern U.S. to a halt presents another challenge:  the need to help provide blood for patients in states where local blood centers are unable to collect donations due to extreme weather conditions.

As a result, STBTC is asking the community to step up and donate blood, both for local patients and for those in other states that are in need of our help due to Winter Storm Quinn.

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Community encouraged to support first grader

Blood donors continue to help child fight for his life
February 14, 2018
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South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, a subsidiary of BioBridge Global, will be hosting a blood drive in honor of a young San Antonio patient diagnosed with childhood leukemia.  Family and friends of seven-year-old Dev, who has used over 330 blood products since being diagnosed in July, 2017, will host a two-day blood drive in Dev’s honor.  

For the past several months, and fighting for his life, Dev has been in and out of the hospital as he receives treatment for his illness including chemotherapy and blood transfusions.

To make things more challenging, Dev is, unfortunately, O negative. O negative patients can only receive blood from an O negative donor -  who make up only seven percent of the population. 

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Blood donors receive BOGO T-shirt for free pie

Restaurant continues to support blood donors
February 9, 2018
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Blood donors are used to receiving a T-shirt when they donate, but now the T-shirt will serve another purpose. Blood donors will become a walking coupon when they dine-in at any Bill Miller restaurant wearing the BOGO T-shirt.

The South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, a subsidiary of BioBridge Global, has partnered with Bill Miller to thank blood donors again, as all presenting donors in February and March will receive a T-shirt that entitles them to a free slice of pie with the purchase of a combo meal.

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New Type of Blood Transfusion on Medical Helicopters Promises to Transform Trauma Care, Improve Survival Rates

‘Brothers in Arms’ program brings battlefield advances to civilian trauma care; Future expansion of initiative could help save more lives in mass-casualty situations
January 26, 2018
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South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, a subsidiary of BioBridge Global, today launched a program to aid accident and trauma patients served by area air medical services and hospital helicopters. The program, “Brothers in Arms,” will enable air medical crews to administer special pre-hospital transfusions of whole blood, proven to counter blood loss and dramatically improve survival rates when tested in battlefield situations.

San Antonio is one of the first cities to implement the system, which is based on a battlefield transfusion program developed by the U.S. military and later adapted at the Mayo Clinic trauma center. The 75th Ranger Regiment “O Low-Titer Whole Blood Program” was the recipient of the Army’s Greatest Innovation Award in 2017

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