blood donation News
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Blood & Stem Cell Donation From Astim
As Astim Family with all our employees, we have become donors for society and life. Turkish Red Crescent, which serves with 67 blood donation centers and mobile blood donation vehicles, with the purpose of meeting whole blood demand from continuous volunteers, was the guest of Astim. In the Red Crescent mobile blood donation vehicle that visited our company, 50% of our total staff that was found ...
By ASTIM A.S.
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Volunteering, Civic Involvement & the Tucson shootings
Volunteering is CSR: Blog by Robert Rosenthal the post below is a reprint of an article that originally ran in Volunteering Is CSR, our blog for business leaders. The shootings in Tucson of U.S. Rep. Gabriel Giffords and 19 others shocked a nation that had already been electrified by political debate. Even as the wire services first picked up the story, social media networks immediately lit up ...
By 3BL Media
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AVTECH Is Named Among The 2023 Best HR Teams In America!
We are, once again, extremely proud of our team for being honored as having one of the 2023 Best HR Teams in America by the Best Companies Group. What makes this recognition even more meaningful is that it comes as a follow up to one of our other most recent achievements, when AVTECH Software ranked third place within the Small Business category during the 2023 Best Places To Work RI awards. We ...
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Implementing “Sysmex Gives Back Day”, a Group-wide Social Contribution Activities
Sysmex Group, observing a unified global theme of “Aim for a Healthier Society” in line with its Policy on Corporate Citizenship Activities and Philanthropy, promotes social contribution activities with the whole group acting in concert. Based on that theme, we implemented “Sysmex Gives Back Day”, which comprises a program of activities from October through January. ...
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GFL employees participate in plasma donation drive
GFL recently partnered with Canadian Blood Services to organize a plasma donation drive in honor of the newly opened plasma donor center near GFL’s Vaughan, Ontario, head office. GFL employees donated their plasma with the goal of helping patients in local hospitals who require this life-saving component in blood. “It was amazing to see our team come together to support the ...
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Grifols and Shanghai RAAS close their strategic alliance in China
Grifols controls a 26.20% stake in Shanghai RAAS (economic and voting rights) in exchange for a non-majority share on behalf of Shanghai RAAS (45% economic rights and 40% voting rights) in Grifols’ subsidiary, Grifols Diagnostic Solutions (GDS) Over the past 35 years, Grifols has increasingly expanded its presence in China, which is currently the company’s third-largest sales ...
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AVTECH Software Ranks 3rd In The Best Places To Work Awards - 2nd Year In A Row!
On Wednesday, June 7th, during the Providence Business News 2023 Best Places To Work awards ceremony, AVTECH Software was awarded third place within the Small Business category. This is the third consecutive year that our team has received the Best Places To Work Award. It is once again a huge honor for us to be acknowledged for creating a positive work environment, where our employees love to ...
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Coca-Cola Hellenic to build on existing support for red cross and red crescent societies
Coca-Cola Hellenic today welcomed the opportunity to build upon its disaster response programme and community development projects across its 28 countries following the signing of a partnership agreement between the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC). The global partnership involves a USD 2 million funding from The Coca-Cola ...
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Adam & Eve concludes another generous year of giving
In 2010, a year in which many companies were still struggling financially, Adam & Eve, America's most trusted source for adult products donated to over 80 non-profit organizations during 2010, with donations totaling more than $85,000. Adam & Eve rounded out the year with a recent fundraiser to benefit the local disaster relief fund of the American Red Cross, as well as the annual drives ...
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Grifols continues to reinforce its commitment to all stakeholders as a response to COVID-19
Grifols has adopted a number of measures since the onset of the pandemic in order to respond to the needs of its stakeholders. The company continually monitors the progression of COVID-19, analyzing and evaluating its potential impact on its workforce and operations to guarantee minimal delays or interruptions in our operations as Grifols’ products and services are essential for patients ...
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More than 20,000 Novartis associates worldwide to volunteer for local causes in Community Partnership Day
Annual volunteer event to commemorate creation of Novartis in 1996 now benefits hundreds of charities in 55 countries More than 20,000 associates worldwide engage in voluntary activities in their communities Novartis event emphasizes ongoing commitment to Corporate Citizenship Thousands of Novartis associates in 55 countries will engage in volunteer activities to benefit people in their ...
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Abbott receives FDA approval for first fully automated blood test for `kissing bug` disease
Abbott received Biologic License Application (BLA) approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the ABBOTT PRISM Chagas test. The test is a fully automated blood screening assay that can detect antibodies to Trypansoma cruzi (T. cruzi), a parasite found only in the Americas and most commonly acquired through contact with the blood-sucking triatomine or "kissing bug." ...
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Grifols reaches revenue of EUR 5,100 million, a 13.6% increase, and raises its profits to EUR 625 million
Revenue increases 13.6% (9.2% cc) as a result of the sustainable growth strategy, with advances in all divisions and regions Bioscience leads the growth with EUR 3,994 million of revenue (13.6%; 8.9% cc). Diagnostic and Hospital continue to make progress with sales of EUR 734 million (4.5%; 1.1% cc) and EUR 134 million (12.5%; 12.1% cc), respectively. Bio Supplies achieves EUR 267 million in ...
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Cartherics granted first patent in China for multiple development candidates
Melbourne, Australia, 09 January 2023 – Cartherics Pty Ltd (“Cartherics”), a biotechnology company developing immune cell therapies for the treatment of cancer, announced today that it has been granted Chinese patent ZL 201680069543.6, entitled “Genetically modified cells and uses thereof”. This patent is part of the family represented by the international patent ...
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NIH investigators find link between DNA damage and immune response
Researchers offer the first evidence that DNA damage can lead to the regulation of inflammatory responses, the body's reaction to injury. The proteins involved in the regulation help protect the body from infection. The study, performed by scientists at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), which is part of the National Institutes of Health, is one of the first studies ...
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NIH investigators find link between DNA damage and immune response
Researchers offer the first evidence that DNA damage can lead to the regulation of inflammatory responses, the body's reaction to injury. The proteins involved in the regulation help protect the body from infection. The study, performed by scientists at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), which is part of the National Institutes of Health, is one of the first studies ...
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Kephera seeks volunteers who are confirmed COVID-19 positive to donate finger prick blood samples to help develop a new COVID-19 antibody test.
Kephera Diagnostics has launched a new study aimed at collecting blood samples from volunteers at least 18 years of age who have been confirmed positive for COVID-19, for use in development of an antibody test for the virus. The new test will determine whether symptomatic as well as asymptomatic individuals have been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 by detecting antibodies to ...
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