COLUMBUS, Ohio — While the Ohio State Universtiy and University of Michigan football game is a month away, the universities are united in an off-the-field competition focused on addressing a critical health care need. The Blood Battle is designed to address the shortage of blood for patients in need. What You Need To Know This […]
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Mountain View, Missouri – October 25, 2023 – Football fans can be “Champions for Life” and score some Chiefs apparel. The Community Blood Center of the Ozarks, the sole supplier of blood, platelets, and plasma to patients at 44 area healthcare facilities, is asking everyone to help make a touchdown for local patients in their […]
The Finlayson Family, of Montana, from left is Ruby, 10, Clint, father, Ada, 9, Liam, 12, Alissa, mother, and Lily, 12, in the patio at Ronald McDonald House where Ada and Lily are being monitored after gene therapy for beta thalassemia by UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. Since […]
While he was primarily a theatrical producer – technically a background role – Bill Kenwright in person radiated the confidence and bonhomie of the actor he originally was (starting in ITV’s Coronation Street) and the staging brain of the director he intermittently became: especially with recurrent productions of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s and Tim Rice’s Joseph […]
Matías A. Loewy, Knowable Magazine If just by looking at our watch or cellphone we can know, in real time, our heart rate, the number of steps we take, the calories we burn and the hours of sleep we got the night before, why can’t we also know our blood pressure? Blood pressure is the […]
Low blood levels of vitamin D are tied to poorer cognitive skills and more severe disability in people with multiple sclerosis, researchers in Italy report. “Our study showed that [vitamin D] levels are associated with cognitive function in MS, as already well demonstrated in the general population and in neurodegenerative diseases” such as such as […]
(October 25, 2023 / JNS) A document from the end of the 15th century features an illustration of a bearded Jew extracting the blood of a Christian child. The adjoining text explains that Jewish law requires that Passover matzoh be baked with the blood of Christian children. Such documents were widely circulated through Europe during […]
JAMESTOWN — The University of Jamestown hosted a blood drive with Vitalant on Oct. 5 at the Reiland Fine Arts Center, which collected 54 units of blood products for patients in need. Fifty-three people volunteered to donate blood, and 44 individuals were able to successfully donate. Eight donors gave Power Red Cells (2RBC), where two […]
The International Max Planck Research School for Infectious Diseases and Immunology (IMPRS-IDI) is looking to recruit one PhD student for a project in Dr. Igor Iatsenko’ s research group “Genetics of host-microbe interactions” at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology starting in 2024 in Berlin. Project Description:The Iatsenko lab utilizes the fruit fly Drosophila […]