Category Archives: Blood

A Queensbury woman has been arrested after police said she drove with a blood alcohol level over three times the legal limit. South Glens Falls Police spotted 31-year-old Georgia R. Morrill on Main Street on Oct. 17 at about 9:40 p.m. going 45 mph in a 30 mph zone, according to a news release. Officers […]

Blizzard has announced a unique competition that gives players a chance to win a brand-new PC that is cooled with human blood. Yes, you read that right. A PC cooled with human blood. Known as the Blood Harvest, Blizzard is holding a campaign to increase the amount of blood being donated in the United States. […]

Noelle Corbett   ❘   Published: 2023-10-23T16:37:52   ❘   Updated: 2023-10-23T16:38:03 To promote Diablo 4‘s Season of Blood, Blizzard is running a real-world Blood Harvest event in which players can donate blood to help unlock in-game rewards and a sweepstakes to win a powerful and morbid PC. Diablo 4’s Season of Blood is underway, […]

Jan Karregat, MSc Credit: LinkedIn Findings from a recent study are providing clinicians with an overview of the knowledge and perception of individuals involved in blood donation regarding donation-induced iron loss and iron supplementation as a service policy. Insight provided by donors, collection staff, and physicians during focus group discussions revealed donor lack of awareness […]

Columbia University Irving Medical Center Frequent blood draws have been a dreaded feature of IVF for decades. To retrieve eggs for in vitro fertilization (IVF), a patient must endure a half-dozen or more blood draws over two weeks to measure hormone levels and determine when the eggs are ready to be collected. For Mariel Boyd, […]

A phenomenal amount of research on Long COVID—the name for chronic symptoms following a case of COVID-19—has been published over the past three years. But scientific advances have yet to bring relief to people who are already sick, a group estimated to include about 5% of U.S. adults but hard to precisely quantify due to […]

The San Diego Blood Bank began welcoming newly eligible donors Friday, following the Food and Drug Administration guidance this year establishing a blood donor screening process based on individual donor assessments instead of sexual orientation. Now, every prospective donor, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, will be evaluated using the same individual donor assessment questions […]

OMAHA, Neb. (CNN) – One lucky shelter dog in Nebraska will soon be living the rock star life. The husky is named Bret Michaels, and it’s only fitting that he’s being adopted by the singer himself. Bret Michaels the dog gained media attention after he saved the life of a 4-week-old kitten with a blood […]

Blizzard has come up with a very special competition to fuel a blood donation campaign: It’s giving away a high-end Diablo IV-themed gaming PC whose water cooling system is infused with “real human blood” if players donate enough of the life-giving liquid. In the “Diablo IV Blood Harvest” blood drive, the Diablo community aims to […]