http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/blood/ en-us Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:38:20 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411002/posts Blood loss is a major cause of death from roadside bombs to freeway crashes. Traumatic injury, the leading cause of death for people age 4 to 44, often overwhelms the body's natural blood-clotting process. In an effort to enhance the natural process, a team led by Erin Lavik, a new Case Western Reserve University biomedical engineering professor, and her former doctoral student, James P. Bertram, built synthetic platelets that show promise in halting internal and external bleeding. Their work is published in Science Translational Medicine. The researchers were inspired by studies showing there are few options to treat soldiers suffering... Case Western Reserve University via Medical News Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411002/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:38:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408389/posts It was the worst terrorist attack in Britain's history, the deadliest assault on U.S. civilians until 9/11 and a political powder keg that roiled governments around the world. On Dec. 21, 1988, a bomb exploded in the forward cargo hold of Pan Am Flight 103, a jetliner flying from London to New York. Within less than a minute, the Boeing 747 splintered into thousands of pieces and fell 31,000 feet, smashing down in the village of Lockerbie, Scotland. The impact killed 11 villagers and destroyed 21 homes. None of the 259 people on board the aircraft survived. On August 21,... Times of London/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408389/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:18:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2334204/posts WOODBURY, N.Y. – A New York man is donating his 320th pint of blood this week, making him one of two people in the U.S. who has given 40 gallons. Seventy-five-year-old Al Fischer of Massapequa (mass-ah-PEE'-kwah) plans to reach the milestone Tuesday, 58 years after he started giving blood. According to a New York Blood Center official, only 83-year-old Maurice Wood has donated more blood than Fischer. Wood is a retired railroad inspector from St. Louis. Fischer, a print shop operator, donates blood about six times a year. He says he and Wood are engaged in a friendly rivalry and... Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2334204/posts#comment Mon, 7 Sep 2009 22:25:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2322153/posts Lord Mandelson has dismissed claims that the release of Lockerbie bomber is linked to a trade deal - as the head of the FBI slams the Scottish government. The claim was made by Seif al Islam, the son of Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi, in a television interview filmed as Abdelbaset al Megrahi was flown home. "In all commercial contracts, for oil and gas with Britain, (Megrahi) was always on the negotiating table," he said. "All British interests were linked to the release of Abdelbaset al Megrahi." He said he had met Colonel Gaddafi twice in the past year, and on... Sky News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2322153/posts#comment Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:39:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299866/posts SANTIAGO (AFP) – A middle-aged leukemia patient has became Chile's first patient to receive stem cells from an umbilical cord in a radical procedure that could cure the disease, health officials here said Thursday. The 48-year-old man received the transplanted cells on Monday from samples stored in the so-called "Bank of Life" institute, said doctors at Santiago's Catholic University Hospital, where the operation was performed... AFP / Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299866/posts#comment Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:58:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2292839/posts Homosexuals are banned from donating blood at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, a 650-bed private hospital in central Delhi with a daily footfall of 6,000. Other premier hospitals such as the 350-bed Moolchand Medcity ask for the sexual preference of donors, while the Escorts Heart Institute discourages homosexuals from donating even if they meet all health parameters. Ganga Ram bans homosexuals outright by listing homosexuality as a disease along with others that make people ineligible from donating, such as heart disease, jaundice, tuberculosis, HIV, and diabetes. “Calling homosexuality a disease is an outdated concept,” said Dr S.P. Agarwal, secretary general,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2292839/posts#comment Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:09:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910887/posts Al Gore’s campaign against global warming is shifting into high gear. Reporters and commentators follow his every move and bombard the public with notice of his activities and opinions. But while the mainstream media promote his ideas about the state of planet Earth, they are mostly silent about the dramatic impact his economic proposals would have on America. And journalists routinely ignore evidence that he may personally benefit from his programs. Would the romance fizzle if Gore’s followers realized how much their man stands to gain? Earlier this year Gore experienced a notable public relations debacle. The Tennessee Center for... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910887/posts#comment Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:35:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285015/posts A piece of research has shown that anger or mental stress can increase the flow of blood in the brain. Led by Tasneem Naqvi and Hahn Hyuhn from the University of Southern California and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the study involved a series of ultrasound experiments. It showed that mental stress causes carotid artery dilation, and increases brain blood flow. The researchers say that that dilatory reflex was absent in people with high blood pressure. They evaluated carotid artery reactivity and brain blood flow in response to mental stress in 10 healthy young volunteers (aged between 19 and 27 years), 20... ANI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285015/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 19:23:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264248/posts [Editor’s Note: The following is a speech delivered by Dr. Jamie Glazov, author of "United in Hate: The Left's Romance With Tyranny and Terror," at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s book club event on May 14 in Los Angeles.]I would like to thank everyone for coming out tonight. I feel very privileged and honored this evening just to have made it here. This book has been on my mind almost my entire life. I’m going to begin on a personal angle because it’s my story, my family’s story, that serves as the foundation of why I wrote this book. Because... Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264248/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 00:58:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2259014/posts In the Feb. 10 issue of The Christian Century, Daniel M. Bell Jr. states in “God Does Not Require Blood” that he is opposed to the substitutionary doctrine of the atonement, or any doctrine of the atonement, for that matter, in which blood is a key element. Reacting to the most crass and extreme expressions of suffering and substitution, Dr. Bell links the blood stuff with violence, primitive (and therefore inadequate) views of justice, war, spousal abuse and all sorts of bad things. He grants that the easiest way to circumvent the argument for any sort of blood atonement is... UM Portal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2259014/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 14:01:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229023/posts I thought that the acting was a bit stiff. Not a good date movie. Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229023/posts#comment Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:38:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228507/posts For years, the use of unscreened blood transfusions exposed severely wounded servicemembers and other trauma patients in Iraq and Afghanistan to the inherent risk of diseases such as HIV, hepatitis and malaria, according to medical experts who advise the secretary of defense. Battlefield attacks that resulted in mass casualties or severe injuries often overtaxed the military’s blood supply system until 2007, meaning medics collected fresh blood from those on site for emergency treatment of the wounded, the Defense Health Board wrote in a June 2008 report. The unscreened blood transfusions, however, did not meet federal safety standards required of all... Stars & Stripes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228507/posts#comment Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:35:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225107/posts (IsraelNN.com) Hamas actors, several days before the Passover holiday, performed in Gaza its version of an old blood libel against Jews, who previously have been accused of using Christian blood to drink and to make matzo, the unleavened bread eaten on the Passover holiday. Arutz 7 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225107/posts#comment Wed, 8 Apr 2009 20:42:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2192963/posts Medical privacy advocates, ethicists say parents should be asked for consent before newborns' screening samples are kept. For almost seven years, the state has been indefinitely storing blood from nearly all newborns in Texas without their parents' consent for possible use in medical research. The blood is collected as part of a 44-year-old state-mandated newborn screening program in which hospitals, birthing centers and midwives draw blood from a baby's heel — parental consent isn't required for that, either — so the state can test for a host of birth defects. The state either discarded the blood after six months or,... AMERICAN-STATESMAN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2192963/posts#comment Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:43:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2191977/posts WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Drunken drivers beware: If you drink and drive, especially during the last weekend of February, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and other area law enforcement will be out for blood. PBSO deputies plan to set up driving under the influence checkpoints. If they suspect a driver is under the influence, they'll offer an on-the-spot Breathalyzer. If drivers refuse, deputies will ask to draw blood from their arms. West Palm Beach News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2191977/posts#comment Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:29:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2190793/posts Some Drivers Feel Blood Tests 'Invasive' Drunken drivers beware: If you drink and drive, especially during the last weekend of February, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and other area law enforcement will be out for blood. PBSO deputies plan to set up driving under the influence checkpoints. If they suspect a driver is under the influence, they'll offer an on-the-spot Breathalyzer. If drivers refuse, deputies will ask to draw blood from their arms. "I think that's really personal and I think that if you deny a Breathalyzer and you say that you don't want that, I think that's outrageous... WPBF http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2190793/posts#comment Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:23:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2187329/posts But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. 1 John 1:7 The blood of Jesus purifies us from all sin. That's essentially the Gospel message in a concise sentence. Men, women, and children all over the world have died horrible deaths because of that one sentence. They have risked everything to proclaim that simple message. The upside to that is that many lives have been radically changed because of the words in that solitary sentence. Marriages have... Devotions ChopChop http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2187329/posts#comment Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:00:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2186209/posts For a disease that begins with a bite from the deceptively sweet-sounding kissing bug, Chagas disease is a major killer in some parts of the world. The bug deposits a parasite that can lurk silently in the body for decades before causing the heart to enlarge — and sometimes the colon or esophagus as well. Chagas, which afflicts millions in Latin America, was long thought to be largely confined there. But a recently approved test to screen blood donors has identified hundreds of cases across the United States — including eight in Bexar County. The sudden appearance of these cases... San Antonio Express-News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2186209/posts#comment Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:07:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2181689/posts The parents of an eight-year-old boy with a rare blood disorder have amazed doctors by finding a cure for him after refusing to give up hope. Reuben Grainger-Mead suffered a condition so rare that doctors did not even have a name for it. The schoolboy suffered from a low level of red blood cells, which left him with a weak immune system and needing blood transfusions once a month. Doctors compared his condition to living with a permanent hangover. But after years of research his parents Michelle and Peter, discovered Reuben lacked vital amino acids and proteins and put him... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2181689/posts#comment Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:31:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174559/posts WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, 2009 – As Armed Services Blood Program officials join with the rest of the nation in observing National Blood Donor Month, the program’s director expressed gratitude for the more than 165,000 donations from Defense Department military, civilians and their families in 2008. “January is designated every year as a special time when the Armed Services Blood Program, as well as the other blood donor programs, commemorates our blood volunteer donors; they are actually the core of our program,” Army Col. (Dr.) Francisco J. Rentas told “Dot Mil Docs” audio webcast listeners Jan. 27 on BlogTalkRadio.com. “It... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174559/posts#comment Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:30:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2162808/posts New Jerseyans can be generous, but not when it comes to blood.  For 15 years, the state has lagged behind the nation in the percentage of people giving blood.  New Jersey hospitals were forced to spend  $18 million to $24 million in 2007 to buy supplies from other states, according to health and business experts who are banding together today to announce a statewide blood donation campaign. "Nine out of 10 people need blood at some point in their lives. Yet at most times of the year, the state has less than a two-day supply of blood." Nearly 60 percent... star ledger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2162808/posts#comment Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:55:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160425/posts This is a bloody photo exhibit of the blood letting mourning ritual of the Shiites. The photos are graphic. Retuers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160425/posts#comment Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:55:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2157045/posts "New blood" can revitalize a company or a sports team. Recent research by Tel Aviv University finds that young blood does a body good as well, especially when it comes to fighting cancer. The TAU researchers, led by Prof. Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu from the Department of Psychology's Neuroimmunology Research Unit, discovered that a transfusion of "young" blood -- blood which has been stored for less than 9 days -- increased the odds of survival in animals challenged with two types of cancer. This finding, reported in the journal Anesthesiology, may solve an age-old mystery as to why some blood transfusions during... PhysOrg http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2157045/posts#comment Thu, 1 Jan 2009 02:02:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108951/posts Three days after Marble Falls police took their first driving while intoxicated suspect to the hospital armed with a search warrant for a blood draw, Seton Highland Lakes Medical Center in Burnet announced they will no longer adhere to the court order. "There were some issues," said Capt. Roger Sooter, with the Marble Falls Police Department. "But the draw was made, then we received the letter from the administrator." Seton Highland Lakes Medical Center Administrator, Scott Fuller, wrote a letter to city and county officials Oct. 6 that stated "effective immediately, the Highland Lakes Medical Center will not draw specimens... KXAN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108951/posts#comment Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:06:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2085972/posts (ANSA) - Naples, September 19 - The Miracle of San Gennaro was repeated on Wednesday when the blood of this city's patron saint liquefied at 9.30am. The event was announced to the thousands packing the cathedral and square outside, who cheered and let off firecrackers. A visibly moved Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, the Archbishop of Naples, held up a phial containing the blood of the 3rd-century saint while a traditional white handkerchief was waved. Cardinal Sepe said that, unusually, the blood was already in liquid form when it was taken out of the strongbox where it is stored. But the liquefaction... Ansa.it http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2085972/posts#comment Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:13:28 GMT