Saradpon is a stay-at-home mother of two and a florist. She is president of the Cooley’s Anemia Foundation California chapter, organizes blood drives and fundraisers to raise awareness for thalassemia, and runs a women’s ministry at her church called “Women At The Well.” She lives in National City. My daughter Kamila is 9 years old […]
Nayak is the chief business officer of San Diego Blood Bank. He lives in Scripps Ranch. When most people think about blood transfusion patients, their mind automatically goes to someone who has just been injured or needs life-saving emergency surgery. This is part of the reason why blood donations spike after earth-shattering events or natural […]
I don’t think I’ve analyzed this paper on my site, but, since it came out recently, it’s become well known among rational biologists for being tendentious, ideologically based, and largely incoherent, something you might intuit from its title. You can read it by clicking on the screenshot below: The paper’s object is to dismantle the […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger called for some “really young blood” during an interview about the upcoming 2024 elections as 80-year-old President Biden and 77-year-old Donald Trump remain frontrunners in the presidential race. “I just hope that America finds some really young blood,” Schwarzenegger told BBC in an interview. “Because to me, it is a little bit odd […]
Dengue cases are still rising in Miami-Dade County, while West Nile virus is making rounds in North Florida and Tampa Bay, according to the Florida Department of Health. Last week, the department reported 10 cases of dengue contracted in the state, all of which came from Miami-Dade, according to the arbovirus surveillance report published on […]
On October 13, the drug manufacturer Sanofi made a surprising announcement: Public demand for Beyfortus — the brand name of nirsevimab, the company’s new product aimed at protecting newborns from severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections — had wildly outpaced supply. In some ways, that’s good news: This is the first RSV season that the […]
On October 17, just before President Joe Biden’s planned visit to Israel, an explosion rocked the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza. Within moments, the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health blamed an Israeli missile and reported 500 civilian deaths. Failing to question the implausible speed with which the ministry counted the dead, media outlets accepted and propagated […]
The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control has tested a specimen for Naegleria fowleri infection and it came back negative. Public health officials in Mohave County and the Arizona Department of Health Services sent the sample to the CDC Tuesday for possible exposure of the brain-eating amoeba. According to the CDC, Naegleria fowleri infections are […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have developed a new way of improving diagnosis of bipolar disorder that uses a simple blood test to identify biomarkers associated with the condition. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, used a combination of an online psychiatric assessment and a blood test to diagnose patients with bipolar disorder, many […]
Dear Amy: I’m a man and getting mixed responses from the women in my life over a recent visit to my doctor for a medical exam. It is not the first time this has happened, but it continues to be an awkward situation for me. My visit starts, as usual, with the heart rate and […]