It’s Valentine’s Day – Saturday, 14 February 2004 – but Marco Pantani is alone. He’s holed up in Room 5D of the Residence Le Rose hotel in the Italian seaside resort of Rimini having arrived, out of season, on the previous Monday. Other guests say he’s been behaving erratically. Pantani was 34 years old, and […]
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the potential of new diseases to wreck our world has never been more clear—and so is the role that environmental changes play in exacerbating those new diseases. The connections between those factors is still an ongoing investigation, but the more we’re learning, the more we ought to be […]
There are many period products on the market from pads, tampons and cups to discs. Yet, there is a dearth of reliable information about how much menstrual blood they can hold — a useful metric for clinicians as well as consumers. Heavy menstrual bleeding affects up to a third of people who menstruate and that […]
A particular protein normally used to rule out a heart attack could indicate a higher risk of death in a patient’s next couple of years – for any reason. Troponin is a heart protein, and high levels of it are often seen in hospital patients who don’t have specific signs of a heart attack. But […]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Amid widely differing capacities of available menstrual hygiene products, a menstrual disc—similar in shape to a diaphragm—may be best for dealing with heavy monthly blood flow as well as indicating excessive blood loss, suggests research published online in the journal BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health. Despite the fact that 800 million […]
The maker of diabetes and weight loss medication Wegovy said a trial found that the drug can also cut the risk of cardiovascular disease by 20%. Air Date: Aug 8, 2023 Weeknights on CBS
Starting Monday, more people will be eligible to donate blood. The Food and Drug Administration has changed guidelines that previously excluded most gay and bisexual men from donating. The Red Cross is one of the first blood banks to implement the new guidelines, which now use an individually based risk assessment. It’s a welcomed change […]
Nervous around needles? Mixed reality is here to help. According to America’s Blood Centers, the United States has been suffering from a noticeable lack of blood donors below the age of 30 over the past 10 years; roughly 30% to be more exact. To help quell this growing shortage, Abbot Laboratories, a medical device and […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — More people are now able to donate blood after the Red Cross put new FDA guidelines into place. North Carolina Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley pushed for the change, which no longer excludes people from donating based on their sexual orientation. Kinsley is celebrating donating blood, not just because […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up a property insurer’s appeal in a dispute about whether blood should be considered a pollutant under a homeowners’ policy. Justices declined to hear an appeal by Florida Farm Bureau General Insurance Co. in the dispute about whether the policy excluded coverage for […]