The FDA has hit the American Red Cross with a nearly $10 million fine for safety violations, lax oversight and faulty testing of its blood services. The fine is just the latest of more than a dozen the Red Cross has racked up in the last decade.... Read more»
Aid is being rushed to the Tarahumara indigenous tribes in northern Mexico, after serious food shortages in the region prompted one official to falsely report that men and women had committed suicide out of desperation.... Read more»
Historian and writer John Martin Meek talks about his new book “The Other Pearl Harbor.” Plus, state Sen. Linda Lopez, and Richard White from the Red Cross.... Read more»
As the famine in southern Somalia worsens, aid experts fear that corruption and the politics of terrorism are crimping the flow of humanitarian relief to areas where starvation is worst.... Read more»
The Sudan government killed large numbers of civilians in troubled South Kordofan state and the bodies were buried in mass graves by the Sudanese Red Crescent Society, according to the Satellite Sentinel Project.... Read more»
Somalia’s famine has already killed tens of thousands of people and is expected to spread across the south of the country in the coming weeks as failed rains combine with failed politics to create a humanitarian catastrophe that threatens millions of lives. (with video)... Read more»
Debra Deininger and Darrin Greenlee of the Arizona Blood Services Region of the American Red Cross stop by to discuss the shortage of blood donors in the metro Tucson area.... Read more»
A British resident of Japan has conceived and led the publication of a book aimed at telling the stories of Japanese earthquake and tsunami victims, and raising relief funds.... Read more»
In the wake of the Jan. 8 shooting that killed 6 and injured 13 others, many charity funds and other ways to help in the community have been set up.... Read more»
The Red Cross is requesting donations of O positive and 0 negative blood after the shooting of 19 on Saturday.... Read more»1
It’s been a week of bleak assessments of the war in Afghanistan. The late Richard Holbrooke, the Red Cross and the White House share a dim view of the war.... Read more»
Eleven blocks from the border, hundreds of destitute Mexicans are gathered in a shelter, escaping what they fear is certain death.... Read more»2
Teens have traditionally been active donors, but officials say donations from the age group have surged since a 2008 law lowered the minimum age for donors from 17 to 16 with parental consent.... Read more»
Inmates in a South Texas detention facility began a series of hunger strikes in January, hoping for better conditions and fewer transfers, as advocates pleaded for the government to come through on promises to reform the immigrant-detention system.... Read more»
As a planet, we have become remarkably adept at response to natural disasters. Not only are nations pooling resources to work together to search, rescue, recover and rebuild, but we are doing so faster than ever before with greater success. Leave it to the technology geeks to further optimize that process.... Read more»
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