Health Dec 22 New FDA rules allow gay blood center employee to donate after years of denial By Manuel Valdes, Claire Rush, Associated Press
Health May 11 FDA relaxes blood donation guidelines for men who have sex with men The new approach does away with a requirement that men who have sex with men abstain from sex for three months to prior to giving blood. By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press
Nation Jul 02 5 Stories: A selfie from China’s Mars rover, new research on how to reverse gray hair and other stories you missed Reducing stress could reverse graying hair. Watch 5 Stories host Deema Zein explain what the latest research reveals as part of our weekly show featuring interesting stories from around the world. By Deema Zein
Science Feb 04 Desegregating blood: A civil rights struggle to remember Until 1950 the Red Cross segregated blood. Starting during World War II, thousands of African-Americans forced the Red Cross to include them as donors and helped pave the way for activism of the 1960s. By Thomas A. Guglielmo, The Conversation
Nation Aug 28 ‘It makes me frustrated and sad’ — stories from men who cannot donate blood In July, the public received the chance to weigh in on a long-debated topic: a policy by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that bans blood donations from men who have had sex with men in the past… By Corinne Segal
Aug 14 Have you been affected by the blood donation ban for men who have sex with men? By PBS News Hour The blood donation ban for MSM dates back to the 1980s, as the introduction of HIV/AIDS within the gay community developed into a public health crisis. Continue reading