CHICAGO — Less than two weeks after the American Red Cross announced a national blood shortage, one of the biggest blood suppliers to major hospitals across the greater Chicago area said this week that medical facilities may need to begin rationing blood if donations do not pick up soon. Versiti Blood Center of Illinois, which […]
A total of 94 units of blood were collected at four LifeServe blood drives in Storm Lake this month. The amount of blood collected has the ability to save to up 282 local lives. The blood drives were hosted to support the Buena Vista Regional Medical Center, as well as more than 150 other hospitals […]
Millions die prematurely every year from cardiovascular disease, but healthcare facilities in many developing countries are unprepared to treat patients. Published today Most healthcare facilities in many Low- and Middle-income Countries (LMICs) are unprepared to treat patients with cardiovascular diseases – despite these conditions leading to millions of people dying prematurely every year, a new […]
FRIDAY, Sept. 22, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Substance use has a strong association with acute cardiovascular events and maternal mortality during hospitalization for delivery, according to a study published in the October issue of JACC: Advances. Kari Evans, M.D., from the University of Arizona in Phoenix, and colleagues examined the association between substance use and […]
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JAMA Network About The Study: The results of this study of 220,000 American Indian and Alaska Native patients with Medicare insurance suggest a significant burden of cardiovascular disease and cardiometabolic risk factors. These findings highlight the critical need for future efforts to prioritize the cardiovascular health of this population. Authors: Lauren A. Eberly, M.D., M.P.H., […]
IGN can exclusively reveal five Flesh and Blood trading cards arriving in the Bright Lights set including the four Evo Steel Soul pieces and Singularity, which evolves new hero Teklovossen, Esteemed Magnate into a souped-up Demi-Hero. The four Evo Steel Set cards will also be available in highly coveted Marvel versions, special full art cards […]
BISMARCK, N.D (KXNET)— According to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, approximately every nine minutes, someone in the US dies from a blood cancer. Leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma are the causes of death for about 57,000 people in the US this year. The estimated new cases in cancer overall in North Dakota is about 4,000, with […]
Germline genetic predisposition to myeloid neoplasms contributes to cytopenias and hypoplastic bone marrow (BM) in adult patients, and pathogenic/likely pathogenic genetic variants are associated with a higher risk of severe cytopenias and advanced myeloid neoplasms in this population, according to research published in Blood. Researchers evaluated the prevalence and phenotypic expressivity of germline variants predisposing […]
Aaron Gerds, MD, MS: The NCCN [National Comprehensive Cancer Network] guidelines for polycythemia vera and the other MPNs [myeloproliferative neoplasms] are updated regularly. So certainly there’s a large effort to annually update them, where we go over the entire sets of guidelines to update and refine them. But as new developments come along, we update […]