Share your love this Valentine’s Day by giving blood

What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than by giving the gift of life? Every year on Feb. 14, National Donor Day is dedicated to spreading awareness about organ, eye and tissue donation. One way to celebrate, that will have an impact on your community, is by donating blood at your local blood donor center.

Dr. Justin Juskewitch, associate medical director of the Blood Donor Center at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, says the need for blood is constant, but blood banks tend to run low this time of year, especially.
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