Monthly Archives: August 2023

Community Blood Center facing critical blood shortage, to hold Labor Day weekend blood drive

DAYTON — The Community Blood Center in Dayton is facing a shortage of blood types O positive and negative, A negative and B positive. A blood drive will take place over the Labor Day weekend. There are six mobile blood drives scheduled on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 1-2 and the Donation Center will be open […]

Study results demonstrating vascular benefits of MK-7 in menopausal women presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress

Gnosis by Lesaffre has announced the results of a recent study that found menaquinone-7 (MK-7), marketed as MenaQ7 by Gnosis, may attenuate arterial stiffness in post-menopausal women. An abstract discussing these results was presented on August 27 at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress, by its lead author and PhD student, Femke de Vries. […]

Aspartame safety review by the WHO: a short story about a tempest in a teapot…

Thursday, August 31, 2023 On July 14, 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the results of the dual review of the well-known sugar-substitute aspartame by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), two scientific bodies with different missions, but with one common parent: […]

Study finds a large proportion of Michigan’s C. jejuni infections are caused by antibiotic resistant strains

<div data-thumb="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2023/large-proportion-of-mi.jpg" data-src="https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2023/large-proportion-of-mi.jpg" data-sub-html="Maximum-likelihood phylogeny of 214 Campylobacter jejuni strains reconstructed using the 615 core-gene sequences (550 736 bp) identified in the pangenomic analysis and rooted at the midpoint. The heat map shows the presence (dark blue shading) or absence (white shading) of the 8781 unique genes (arranged in columns) per strain based on placement in the […]

Clarence Thomas Enlists Lawyer to Fight ‘Political Blood Sport’

Clarence Thomas’ yearly financial disclosure came with a highly unusual letter from the justice’s private attorney defending the luxury travel, trips, and property deals he received from Republican mega donor Harlan Crow. In the letter released separately Thursday, attorney Elliot Berke called the attacks on Thomas for failing to disclose these gifts in the past […]

New blood test gives high accuracy screen for Alzheimer’s disease

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Crime alert: Woman cop with head injuries found in pool of blood inside Saryu Express at Ayodhya junction | City – Times of India Videos

Aug 31, 2023, 10:25PM ISTSource: TOI.in A woman cop was found in a pool of blood with deep cut on face and head injury inside Saryu Express at Ayodhya junction railway station in Uttar Pradesh. Passengers at Ayodhya junction alerted on duty GRP men at platform about the injured woman cop. The victim was without […]

Person dies of brain-eating amoeba infection after swimming in lake, health officials say

(Gray News) – A person in the Austin, Texas, area has died from an amebic meningitis infection, an infection of the brain, health officials announced Wednesday, Austin Public Health said the Travis County, Texas, resident got ill after swimming in Lake Lyndon B. Johnson this month. The person who died was not identified. A sample […]

Marijuana users have higher levels of toxic metals in blood and urine, study finds

Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter People who use marijuana were found to have higher levels of lead and cadmium in their blood and urine, in comparison to those […]

Virginia experiencing statewide outbreak of serious meningococcal disease: Officials

Health officials in Virginia have announced the state is experiencing an outbreak of rare, but serious meningococcal disease. Twenty-seven cases have been identified since June 2022, which is three times higher than the expected number of cases during this period, according to the Virginia Department of Health. Of those cases, five people have died from […]