Category Archives: Blood

Theater Review: Shaking the Tree’s “Blood Wedding” Is a Relevant Tragedy of Doom and Revenge

The moment when Shaking the Tree’s Blood Wedding is most successful happens outside the theater. The audience was suddenly surrounded by the show’s actors running through the streets with lanterns, shouting: “Who has a horse? After them! Search all the paths!” In the distance, we spied the play’s Father of the Bride-to-be (Bobby Bermea) pause […]

Researchers develop blood test to assess risk for ALS

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as ALS, is debilitating and has no cure. Now, researchers at the University of Michigan have developed an environmental risk score that will allow them to assess a person’s risk for developing ALS, as well as their survival after diagnosis. Advertisement Toxins such as pesticides and carcinogenic PCBs affect a […]

New Apple Watch to detect blood pressure, sleep apnea; health coach service planned: Report

Apple is introducing new health features to its Apple Watch next year, according to a report from Bloomberg. The watch will support a new system for detecting sleep apnea and a blood pressure sensor. Apple is also working on a health coaching service and new health features for its AirPods and upcoming mixed reality headset. […]

The first Apple Watch was supposed to have non-invasive blood glucose monitoring.

Inside Huawei’s ‘European-inspired’ HQ. It opened a few years ago, but this post by a travel vlogger put the “mini Europe” project back on my radar. Housing the Huawei R&D department (which is probably where it designs new chips) and reportedly costing over $1.5 billion to build, it has replicas of 12 European cities, including […]

Apple Watch Series 10 will monitor blood pressure, detect sleep apnea

An Apple Watch showing a blood oxygen reading. A new report says that after a decade working on health features like blood pressure monitoring, Apple will be ready to add it to 2024’s Apple Watch Series 10. An Apple Watch blood pressure sensor has been rumored for years, but according to Bloomberg, it’s also one […]

Extra Restrictions Against Gay Men Donating Blood Lifted In Switzerland

Donor Gabriel Delabays pledged he would become a regular at the transfusion centre. Epalinges, Switzerland: Gabriel Delabays sat calmly, his feet elevated on a reclining chair, as a nurse drew blood from his left arm at a Swiss transfusion centre today, the first day gay men in the country could give blood without extra restrictions. […]

Switzerland lifts extra restrictions against gay men giving blood

Summary Gay men now subject to same rules as heterosexuals Rights groups say reform is long-awaited breakthrough Blood donor describes ‘long battle’ towards reform EPALINGES, Switzerland, Nov 1 (Reuters) – Gabriel Delabays sat calmly, his feet elevated on a reclining chair, as a nurse drew blood from his left arm at a Swiss transfusion centre […]

‘He threw up blood’: Palestinian detainees face abuse in Israeli custody

Ramallah, occupied West Bank – On the morning of October 8, one day after Hamas’s attack, Israeli special forces units raided the cells of Gilboa prison and violently beat Palestinian prisoners held there. “The revenge attack began that morning,” Salah Fateen Salah, a former prisoner who was released from Gilboa on October 24 after five […]

34 people donate at Atonement blood drive in Jamestown

JAMESTOWN — Atonement Lutheran Church hosted a blood drive for Vitalant on Oct. 13, which collected 43 units of blood products for patients in need. Thirty-eight individuals volunteered to donate blood, and 34 individuals were able to donate at the drive. Seven donors gave Power Red Cells, where two units of red blood cells are […]

Blood drive Nov. 6 at Baptist NM

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