Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Donating blood helps save the lives of patients in need of medical care. There are also benefits to the donor. (Getty Images) ...

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Blood donation is widely recognized as a life-saving act, replenishing hospital supplies and aiding patients. But could donating blood also benefit the donor? Frequent blood donors may experience ...

Journalist Guthrie (How to Make a Spaceship) chronicles the joint efforts of the Australian blood donor and the doctor who helped to solve the mystery of Rh disease in the 1960s. The illness occurs ...