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NEWS ABOUT: blood

blood stories: 12 news summaries

 Swine Flu Shrinks
Nation's Blood Supply 

Donor pool dries up amid absenteeism at schools, offices

Nov 10, 09 7:50 AM CST
(Newser) - America's blood supply is suffering from the H1N1 pandemic. Blood centers nationwide are seeing a drop in donations as school and businesses cancel blood drives because of absenteeism; they're also having to dump blood already donated as an increasing number of donors report flu-like symptoms after giving. Centers say they... More »

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • blood • blood drives • blood transfusions • pandemic • blood donor • swine flu • H1N1 virus

tv review

 True Blood Kills 
 With Metaphors 
 (and, Uh, Sex) 

Kinky sex meets social commentary

Aug 28, 09 8:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Critics are gushing about HBO's hit True Blood, which manages to marry kinky vampire sex to social commentary, writes Gina Bellafante in the New York Times. The barrier-busting series touches on gay marriage, racial profiling, capitalism run amok, and right-wing religious extremism. In the current season, a crazed Christian cult... More »

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gay marriage • HBO • blood • racial profiling • right-wing extremism • True Blood • television program • Anna Paquin • Stephen Moyer

No Blood Found in Casey Anthony's Trunk

Officials release
video, documents in capital murder case

Aug 7, 09 11:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Prosecutors in the Casey Anthony case released a flurry of documents today, including a three-dimensional animated movie of the area where her daughter’s body was found, crime scene photos, and a 1,100-page report by investigators, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Among the revelations: No blood was found in... More »

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death penalty • Florida • blood • forensics • murder trial • Casey Anthony • Caylee Anthony • evidence

(Newser) - There’s a vampire resurgence in Chad, and no, it’s not because Twilight has swept the African country. Cost-conscious residents have resurrected a dish slyly known as “vampire”: cooked animal blood, the BBC reports. With global food prices soaring and meat increasingly expensive, traditional vampire is “actually... More »

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Africa • Chad • cooking • meat • blood • food prices • vampire

New Procedure Uses Athletes' Own Blood to Heal Them

Practice could become standard orthopedics

Feb 17, 09 11:13 AM CST
(Newser) - Before the Super Bowl, Hines Ward and Troy Polamalu got a dose of an exciting new medicine: their own blood. They join at least one Major League pitcher, 20 pro soccer players, and many more casual athletes as early adopters of platelet-rich plasma therapy, a shockingly simple new procedure that... More »

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medical breakthrough • Pittsburgh Steelers • blood • professional athletes • sports medicine

 Blood Type 
 Obsession 
 Splits Japan 


Belief that blood type determines personality blamed for discrimination

Feb 2, 09 8:43 AM CST
(Newser) - A widely held belief that blood type determines personality has opened a vein of controversy in Japan, the AP reports. The notion persists despite scientific debunking, with sports teams, matchmakers, and even employers making decisions based on a person's blood type. Some see the craze as sinister and the term... More »

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Japan • discrimination • blood • personality test

Machete, Blood at Home of Missing NYC Woman's Date

Sex-crime suspect told pal not to talk to cops about missing woman

Dec 7, 08 7:36 AM CST
(Newser) - Police have found blood, a machete, and a woman's shoe at the family home of a sex-crime convict suspected in the disappearance of a woman who left a Manhattan nightclub with him, reports the New York Daily News. Suspect Michael Mele, the son of a retired New York City transit... More »

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crime • murder • blood • disappearance • nightclub

Author Offers Creepy Look at Critters With Taste for Blood

Bats, bedbugs, leeches, and mosquitoes have a common thirst

Oct 21, 08 8:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - With Halloween nearly upon us, the author of new book on bloodsucking creatures—vampire bats, bedbugs, leeches, and the like—leads the New York Times on a sanguivore safari. The world's bloodthirsty creatures vary enormously, as Bill Schutt details in Dark Banquet, and some are mere dabblers, but many specialists... More »

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blood • bats • bedbugs • insects • biology • Halloween • animal • Bill Schutt

Despite Danger, FDA Sanctioned Artificial Blood Studies

Product tripled heart attack risk in subjects

Apr 28, 08 1:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Food and Drug Administration repeatedly approved experiments using artificial blood despite data showing the products to be dangerous, the Washington Post reports. Investigators from the National Institutes of Health found heart attack risk tripled and death increased by 30% for subjects in 16 studies testing five kinds of artificial... More »

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FDA • blood • medical research • heart attack • clinical trials • blood transfusions • artificial blood

Type O Blood Protects
Malaria Victims

Drugs based on finding could spark cure, save
2 million annually

Oct 30, 07 8:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists may be closer to a malaria cure after learning that type O blood naturally shields victims from harsh forms of the disease. A study published today showed that African malaria victims with type O blood are two-thirds less likely to suffer fatal anemia or unrousable coma, the BBC reports.... More »

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Africa • malaria • blood • Edinburgh

Amazon Tribe Broods Over Poached Blood

Brazil Indians livid after discovering DNA samples sold in the US

Jun 20, 07 6:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Amazon tribe is bilious after scientists took blood samples in exchange for medicine they never got, the Times reports. Doctors collected DNA from the Karitiana Indians in the late '70s and again in 1996, and then sold it to researchers for $85 a pop. But now the once remote... More »

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medicine • genetics • disease • science • Brazil • DNA • blood • doctor • Karitiana

China Finds
Fake Protein
in IV Drips

Counterfeit albumin discovered in hospitals and pharmacies

Jun 12, 07 6:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - In yet another product-safety scandal, fake blood protein has been found in IV drips in 60 hospitals and pharmacies in northeastern China, the BBC reports. Albumin, or plasma protein, is administered to patients suffering from burns or undergoing open-heart surgery; the counterfeit contained no protein at all.  More »

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China • medicine • blood • safety • protein • Albumin

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