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HEART TO HEART: HCBB offers incentives, reassurances to attract new blood donors

Houchin Community Blood Bank in Bakersfield has just recently finished with a donor incentive program where donors could receive a voucher for a local restaurant. The idea came after the blood bank noticed a decline in donors, but the restaurant voucher offering wasn’t the only incentive program HCBB had planned. According to the American Red […]

Scientists reclassify 200 rare immune system disorders using network-based approach

Scientists at CeMM, Max Perutz Labs, and St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute in Vienna have achieved a significant advancement in the research of rare immune system disorders. Through a network-based approach, they have reclassified approximately 200 rare diseases. Initial comparisons with clinical data already demonstrate how this can enhance the prediction of treatment efficacy. […]

Causal associations between type 1 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases: a Mendelian randomization study

DiMeglio LA, Evans-Molina C, Oram RA. Type 1 diabetes. Lancet. 2018;391(10138):2449–62. PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  Katsarou A, Gudbjörnsdottir S, Rawshani A, Dabelea D, Bonifacio E, Anderson BJ, Jacobsen LM, Schatz DA, Lernmark Ã. Type 1 diabetes mellitus. Nat Reviews Disease Primers. 2017;3:17016. PubMed  Google Scholar  Green A, Hede SM, Patterson CC, Wild SH, Imperatore […]

Inappropriate antibiotics for upper respiratory infections increase adverse events

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Opinion: Blood cancers are the fifth most common type of cancer. Now I ask, ‘Why me?’

Halpern was an assistant U.S. attorney for more than 30 years. He retired in 2020. He is a member of The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Community Voices Project. Last year, he moved from Mission Hills to Boston for treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Occasionally, life throws you a curve. I certainly felt that way when […]

Love Like Noah: Blood drive held in honor of Gloucester boy who battled leukemia

Noah Thoey was only 13 years old when he passed away earlier this year. His family said he was a fun-loving, adventurous boy who loved Mario and video games. YORKTOWN, Va. — “Love like Noah.” That’s the message one Gloucester family wants to spread through their foundation, honoring the life of their son who recently […]

Officials: Person dies after swimming in lake, contracting amebic infection

AUSTIN, Texas — Public health officials say a person in Travis County, Texas got sick and has died after they developed an illness caused by an amebic meningitis infection. >> Read more trending news Austin Public Health reported that a person got sick after swimming in Lake Lyndon B. Johnson in August. “Although these infections […]

Human blood set to ‘soak’ Vatican in protest inspired by Sinead O’Connor

Human blood is set to “soak” the Vatican in a protest inspired by the late singer Sinead O’Connor. Dissident Russian artist Andrei Molodkin has created a sculpture he plans to fill with blood donated by victims of abuse in the Catholic Church, which he says he will project on to the gates of the historic city – […]