Monthly Archives: November 2023

Tennessee Titans team up with Blood Assurance for ticket fundraiser – WNKY News 40 Television

17 minutes ago Share This Story BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The Tennessee Titans and Blood Assurance are teaming up, and they need your help. Each Tennessee Titans football ticket sale for select games provides $10 to Blood Assurance’s Heroes Grant Program. Blood Assurance says it will award the grant funding to area high schools that […]

Medtronic gains 2 key approvals for its ablation portfolio

Medtronic has gained European CE mark approval for its PulseSelect Pulsed Field Ablation (PFA) System and the Nitron CryoConsole. PulseSelect, designed to treat atrial fibrillation (AFib), is a key piece of Medtronic’s cardiac ablation portfolio. It uses PFA to target a patient’s pulmonary veins with 30-second bursts of energy. In trials, pulsed field has the […]

Cantaloupe salmonella outbreak hits Wisconsin; at least 4 infected with 2 hospitalized

At least four people in four counties have become ill, two of them hospitalized, after contracting salmonella linked to fresh and frozen cantaloupe, according to a statement released Monday by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. The state did not specify the Wisconsin counties. Several cantaloupes and cantaloupe-containing products have been recalled recently due to […]

Great deals, gifts available to blood donors through Our Blood Institute

WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — As Christmas wish lists get longer and wallets get slimmer, an extra boost of cash could be helpful this holiday season. You could be the winner of a $250 Golden Ticket gift card if you donate blood to Our Blood Institute through Wednesday, November 22. Christmas Family Fun Run to bring […]

Four people in Wisconsin sickened by multistate salmonella outbreak linked to cantaloupes

At least two people in Wisconsin have been hospitalized and two other Wisconsinites have fallen ill from a salmonella outbreak linked to contaminated cantaloupes suspected to have sickened dozens across the country, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services said Tuesday. Wisconsin health officials are urging people not to eat or serve cantaloupe products that were […]

Wisconsin included in multi-state outbreak of Salmonella infections linked to cantaloupes

U.S. health officials are warning consumers not to eat certain whole and cut cantaloupes and pre-cut fruit products linked to an outbreak of Salmonella poisoning. At least 43 people in 15 states, including Wisconsin, have been infected in the outbreak announced Friday, including 17 people who were hospitalized. At least four people in four Wisconsin […]

NCCN Guidelines Update Adds Momelotinib for High-, Low-Risk Myelofibrosis

Momelotinib has been added to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology for the treatment of patients with high- and low-risk myelofibrosis (MF) and myelofibrosis with anemia. Neoplasms, cancerous disease, malignant tumour | Ирина Батюк – stock.adobe.com MF is part of a group of heterogeneous disorders of the hematopoietic system collectively […]

Cantaloupes Linked To Salmonella Infections Sold In Wisconsin | Recent News

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS), along with the Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection (DATCP), local health departments, and federal partners, is working to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella infections linked to cantaloupes. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 43 people in 15 states have been infected […]