Hemorrhage, or massive bleeding, is the primary cause of preventable death for people who have sustained a traumatic injury. Traumatic injury is the leading cause of death for Americans aged 1 through 44. Each year, injury accounts for 170,000 deaths, not including those of our soldiers overseas.

To put that into perspective, traumatic injury kills four times more people than breast cancer. Yet, there is very little funding available for trauma researchers to develop effective, new emergency treatments.

In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control, for every $3.51 in federal research dollars spent on HIV research, $1.65 is spent on cancer, and just 10 cents on trauma.

Your donation to this campaign, in any amount, will be dedicated to hemorrhage-related studies.