PORT ST. LUCIE — Blood draws can be fearful endeavors for some people. For 88-year-old Richard “Dick” Pecor of Port St. Lucie, drawing blood has transformed into a calling. Pecor has donated blood every two weeks for the past 50 years, allowing him to reach a unique goal: donating 100 gallons of blood to patients […]
Monthly Archives: September 2023
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — For decades, preventing dengue fever in Honduras has meant teaching people to fear mosquitoes and avoid their bites. Now, Hondurans are being educated about a potentially more effective way to control the disease — and it goes against everything they’ve learned. Which explains why a dozen people cheered last month as […]
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White adults benefit the most from high socioeconomic status compared to Black, Hispanic and Asian adults in the U.S., finds new study in Journal of the American Heart Association Research Highlights: The benefits of four measures of socioeconomic status (education, income, employment status and health insurance) on ideal heart health were greater for non-Hispanic white […]
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When the national American Red Cross experiences a blood shortage, so do its local chapters — including New Jersey. The Red Cross announced on Monday its national supply reached critically low levels, falling nearly 25% since early August. Blood drives across the nation did not collect the amount of donations the organization expected. Red Cross […]
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Nipah in Kerala is Bangladesh variant with ‘high mortality rate’. Check causes, symptoms and treatment of the infection
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In the wake of Nipah infection rise, State Health Minister Veena George said that the virus strain seen in Kerala was the Bangladesh variant that spreads from human to human and has a high mortality rate, though it is less infectious. The Health Minister on Tuesday confirmed that the two people died at a private […]
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Health official with samples collected from an isolation ward set up for Nipah cases to be sent to Virology Institutes in Pune and Alappuzha. (Jipson Sikhera) Nipah virus infection has resurfaced in Kozhikode district for the third time in the past five years, with tests conducted at the National Institute of Virology, Pune confirming it […]
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Apple popularized the smartwatch, just as it did with the smartphone when it released the Apple watch in 2015. But it wasn’t the first – IBM released the WatchPad, which ran on a cut-down version of the Linux operating system way back in 2001. And who remembers the Pebble? Funded via a Kickstarter campaign in […]
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NEW DELHI, Sept 13 (Reuters) – India’s southern state of Kerala shut some schools, offices and public transport on Wednesday in a race to stop the spread of the rare and deadly Nipah virus, which has killed two people. An adult and a child were still infected in hospital, and more than 130 people have […]