The skin, the body’s largest organ, can offer subtle but significant clues about diabetes. Individuals with diabetes often experience dry, itchy skin due to dehydration resulting from frequent urination, a hallmark of the condition. Furthermore, the presence of acanthosis nigricans – dark, thickened patches of skin, typically in body folds – can indicate insulin resistance, […]
Article 0 Comments New You can now listen to Insurance Journal articles! The Florida Supreme Court this week declined to hear an appeal from Florida Farm Bureau General Insurance. The move essentially upholds a lower court that cut down the insurer’s argument that a burglar’s blood and fecal matter are not covered by a homeowner’s […]
Our Blood Institute (OBI) will hold a number of blood drives across the area in August. With your blood donation you’ll receive a free ticket to Science Museum Oklahoma, Frontier City or Hurricane Harbor. Successful donors will also receive a “Life is Better” T-shirt, while supplies last.* Science Museum Oklahoma is home to over 390,000 […]
In a glimpse of what could become a future Black Mirror episode, scientists have hooked the circulatory systems of old mice to young mice, and found that it slows the aging process in the older animals and increases their lifespan by up to 10%. In recent years studies have increasingly shown that giving older mice […]
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) – More people can now roll up their sleeves and donate blood. After the FDA put out new guidelines, blood banks can now expand donor eligibility to include more people from the LGBTQ community. Before this change, there were stricter guidelines for gay and bisexual men who wanted to donate. Before these […]
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — How did blood end up on the back of the nametag sticker put on A.J. Armstrong hours after his parents were shot to death seven years ago, and whose blood is it? Questions about the recently discovered blood evidence dominated day seven of Armstrong’s third capital murder trial. Celestina Rossi, a […]
More gay and bisexual men will be able to donate blood after the American Red Cross announced Monday it would follow recent guidelines from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA issued guidelines in May stating that all potential blood donors must answer a series of individual, risk-based questions to decide eligibility. Men who […]
A Vancouver man and his dog are both recovering from injuries after they were attacked by a trio of raccoons in Kitsilano last week. Jake Moss and Pingu were walking down West 1st Avenue around 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 3 when Pingu stopped to sniff the bushes and encountered two large raccoons. “All of a […]
TEXOMA (KFDX/KJTL) — Blood Battle 2023 is a wrap and the results are in. PREVIOUS: Blood Battle ’23 begins at Market Street Thanks to the generous donations of our viewers this past month, the evening crew emerged victorious. However, it was a close race all month long. In fact, the morning and evening teams were […]
Two people were killed and one other person was moderately injured in a shooting at the Lehavim junction near Rahat in southern Israel on Tuesday night. The three were shot at by an individual in a passing vehicle and were brought to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, where two of them were pronounced dead and […]