NAtasha Pollock By Maisie Olah BBC News, West Midlands A woman who lost 44 pints of blood in an emergency C-section, is pushing for more people to donate blood. Natasha Pollock was given one of the biggest blood transfusions in the UK after she gave birth at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital in 2015. She said […]
<img alt class="gnt_em_vp_img gnt_em_vp_img__yn" src="https://medicalguru.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/maxresdefault-1.jpg" onload="if(this.naturalWidth Shark Week gets people thinking about blood, an opportunity recognized by the American Red Cross, which hopes to get donors to climb aboard. After a summer of declining donations, the emergency assistance agency says there’s a blood shortage. When a donor makes and keeps an appointment to give blood […]
A 17-year-old boy showed up at an area hospital with a gunshot wound July 22 after leaving a blood trail at a Woodbridge apartment complex. Police were called to investigate shots fired about 5:17 p.m. on Wasp Way in the Woodbridge Station Apartments and arrived to find shell casings and a blood trail. As officers […]
The cases are not sight-threatening but needs professional advice, doctors said (Representational) New Delhi: Cases of conjunctivitis and other eye infections are on the rise in Delhi, with many doctors cautioning that it is “highly contagious” and proper hygiene behaviour needs to be maintained to check its spread. Doctors at both government and private hospitals […]
Dealing with a chronic vaginal health issue, like a seemingly endless stream of yeast infections or bacterial vaginosis (BV), can be an emotional and physical burden. You’re in pain, you’re stressed, you just want it to go away. We get it! When conventional treatments don’t seem to be working—or, worse, you feel like your doctor […]
Bags of typo O positive and negative blood. Courtesy San Diego Blood Bank More than 2,385 units of blood were collected at the 47th annual Comic-Con Robert A. Heinlein Blood Drive this week, a San Diego Blood Bank official said Monday. Get Times of San Diego Daily by Email We’ll send you the top local […]
ROSEVILLE, Calif., July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — A pair of new studies presented as abstracts today at the American Society of Nutrition (ASN) annual meeting report that daily prune consumption has promising effects on several biomarkers related to cardiovascular health. Conducted in postmenopausal women and men 55 years and older, the studies reveal: In men, […]
Roche will partner with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals to study a promising new treatment for high blood pressure, becoming the latest large drugmaker to commit in a big way to the often lengthy and expensive process of developing new medicines for the heart. Through a deal announced Monday, Roche will pay Alnylam more than $300 million upfront […]
Cervical excision treatment increases intraamniotic infection risk | Image Credit: © mrmohock – © mrmohock – stock.adobe.com. According to a recent study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, the risk of intraamniotic infection is greater in women with a history of cervical excisional treatment. Preterm prelabor rupture of membranes (PPROM), a leakage […]
