The Dickerson Park Zoo is celebrating its 100th birthday this year — and Community Blood Center of the Ozarks donors are invited to join the party. CBCO, the sole supplier of blood, platelets, and plasma to patients at 44 area healthcare facilities, is partnering with the Dickerson Park Zoo to help boost the region’s blood […]
HIV increases a person’s risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD), but there are unanswered questions about how to best manage this elevated risk. One such question is whether using a class of cholesterol-lowering medications called statins could reduce the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in people living with HIV who have a low […]
Don’t move a muscle. There’s plenty of medical advice on how to lower your blood pressure — exercise is right at the top of the list, along with a healthy diet, losing weight and quitting smoking. But new research reveals which types of exercise might be most effective — and it’s probably not what you think. […]
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) – Suncoast Blood Center is urging everyone to donate blood at Sarasota Police Department Headquarters Wednesday. The drive is part of the annual Boots vs. Badges Blood Drive. The event is a competition between police and firefighters to see who can raise the most blood donations. You can donate from noon until […]
3-D illustration of a syphilis pathogen (Adobe Stock 211998563 by Christoph Burgstedt) With sexually transmitted infections (STIs) spreading more rapidly in the United States within the last few years, rapid and more accurate testing is needed. This week at the 2023 STI and HIV 2023 World Congress, Preventx announced it will make its solutions available to the […]
The UK prime minister was laughed at during an infected blood inquiry hearing after saying the government was working ‘at pace’ to ensure that victims received the right compensation. The inquiry has been examining the scandal of contaminated blood given to patients between 1970 and 1991
Matthew Martinez, MD, director of the Atlantic Health System Sports Cardiology at Morristown Medical Center and a nationally recognized HCM expert, spoke with Cardiovascular Business at the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) 2023 meeting. He explained how HCM care management is changing and how it is not as rare of a disease as previously believed. […]
BY TINA L. SCOTTEDITOR The annual MASH Blood Drive will be held in Merrill on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023, from 7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. at the Northwoods Veterans Post, 601 Johnson St. in Merrill.Each person who comes to donate blood at the event will receive a MASH t-shirt, free lunch, and refreshments.The Community Blood […]
Clinical risk scores may help facilitate appropriate empiric antibiotic treatment for adult outpatients with complicated urinary tract infection (cUTI), according to results of a study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases. Researchers performed a retrospective cohort study from December 2017 to December 2020 among adult Kaiser Permanente Southern California members with an outpatient cUTI. The […]
LONDON — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Wednesday he was committed to paying out compensation swiftly to thousands of people affected by the country’s infected blood scandal, which saw more than 2,000 patients die after contracting HIV or hepatitis from transfusions of tainted blood in the 1970s and 1980s. But Sunak, who was testifying before […]