Category Archives: Blood

Community Blood Center offering chance to win Bengals season tickets

DAYTON — Community Blood Center is offering blood donors a chance to win Bengals season tickets. The CBC said after a “challenging summer” they are in critical need of type O blood. >> Bengals get late touchdown to tie 2nd preseason game against Falcons Anyone who registers to donate now through Sept. 3 with CBC […]

Worthington American Legion recognized for blood drives

Worthington American Legion Post 828 Commander, Darlene Smail, center, stands with Blood Donor Committee chairman James Cantz, left, and Pennsylvania American Legion department commander Craig Wilhelm this summer at the Pennsylvania American Legion’s 104th Department Convention in Harrisburg. Submitted photo The Worthington Memorial American Legion Post 828 received a first-place recognition in the Blood Donor […]

‘Bad Blood’? One lucky blood donor could win Taylor Swift tickets

Estimated read time: 1-2 minutes SALT LAKE CITY — ARUP Blood Services doesn’t need any “Bad Blood,” but if you donate, you might just be “The Lucky One” and win two Taylor Swift tickets. ARUP Blood Services provides blood products to University of Utah Health and Huntsman Cancer Institute. In order to encourage blood donations, […]

Cancer Patients with COVID-19 May be Under Risk of Increased Blood Clots: Study

Red blood cells. (IANS) Cancer patients hospitalised with COVID-19 and those on anti-cancer drugs may face an elevated risk of developing venous thromboembolism (VTE), and potentially severe blood clots in veins, as per a study. Published in JAMA Oncology, the study revealed that those receiving systemic anti-cancer treatment had a 33% higher relative risk of […]

A genome-wide association study of blood cell morphology identifies cellular proteins implicated in disease aetiology

Abstract Blood cells contain functionally important intracellular structures, such as granules, critical to immunity and thrombosis. Quantitative variation in these structures has not been subjected previously to large-scale genetic analysis. We perform genome-wide association studies of 63 flow-cytometry derived cellular phenotypes—including cell-type specific measures of granularity, nucleic acid content and reactivity—in 41,515 participants in the […]

Dinkins trial: Blood, fingerprint evidence was scarce

No blood detected; one fingerprint. That’s what three examiners from the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, concluded and testified to during testimony Thursday about the forensic evidence available in the 2020 murder of Breasia Terrell. Henry Dinkins’ trial in the kidnapping and death of Breasia was in its sixth day in Scott County. The 10-year-old […]