By Sara Heath November 22, 2023 – Income is once again emerging as a leading social determinant of health, with two new studies showing a link between low-income and poor heart health and healthcare. The studies published in the Annals of Internal Medicine and JAMA Network Open showed that low income was tied to a higher […]
The 19th annual Tyler Wilcox Memorial Guns n’ Hoses Blood Drive is next week (Nov. 30-Dec. 2) in Fort Pierre and Pierre. In January 2022, LifeServe Blood Center replaced Vitalant as the only supplier of blood and blood products for all of Avera’s hospitals in South Dakota– including the ones in Gettysburg, Miller and Pierre. […]
Una investigación demuestra que los fármacos agonistas del receptor GLP1 (AR-GLP1) mejora el funcionamiento de los leucocitos y reduce la inflamación y el riesgo cardiovascular en pacientes con diabetes mellitus tipo 2 (DM2), un trastorno metabólico que afecta a uno de cada diez adultos y presenta numerosas enfermedades asociadas, como la aterosclerosis. El estudio, publicado […]
The unusual case of a woman with Cushing’s syndrome caused by an adrenal tumor who experienced recurring episodes of blood clots in the lungs was described in a recent report. The study, “Adrenocorticotropic hormone-secreting phaeochromocytoma as a cause of treatment-resistant hypertension and recurrent pulmonary emboli,” was published in The Journal of the Royal College of […]
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (WDBJ) – An Emergency Medical Services in one of our hometowns is saving lives by paving the way for blood services in Southwest Virginia. Christiansburg EMS can now offer whole blood transfusions and services to patients, thanks to a partnership with a non-profit community blood center, The Blood Connection. Every two seconds, someone […]
The following is a summary of “ABO and Rh blood groups and risk of infection: systematic review and meta-analysis,” published in the November 2023 issue of Infectious Disease by Butler et al. Researchers started a retrospective study to comprehensively evaluate the association between ABO and Rh blood groups and susceptibility to various infections, including SARS-CoV-2. […]
Only concerted multi-disciplinary collaboration and research will stem the tide of diabetes and diabetes-linked cardiovascular disease (CVD), the latter currently the leading cause of death locally and worldwide, claiming 17,9 million lives annually1. This was the consensus among some of the world’s leading cardiologists and researchers gathered at the SA Heart Association’s annual congress aptly themed: […]
Canadian Blood Services has also asked Health Canada to lift the ban in the rest of the country. It says Health Canada is expected to make a decision soon. The United States and Australia both lifted similar bans in 2022. Both Canadian Blood Services and Héma-Québec say they have turned away thousands of donors whose […]
As of Dec. 4, thousands of people living with diabetes or who may have been exposed to a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, commonly known as mad cow disease, will be eligible to donate blood. Hema-Quebec announced Wednesday that it has obtained Health Canada’s authorization to remove these people from its exclusion list. The organization recalls […]
In Delhi, India, air pollution is a severe public health issue. The city is consistently ranked as one of the most polluted in the world, with particulate matter (PM) and other pollutants substantially surpassing permissible levels. Air pollution has a substantial impact on maternal and child health, raising the likelihood of a variety of negative […]