It’s Valentine’s Day – Saturday, 14 February 2004 – but Marco Pantani is alone. He’s holed up in Room 5D of the Residence Le Rose hotel in the Italian seaside resort of Rimini having arrived, out of season, on the previous Monday. Other guests say he’s been behaving erratically. Pantani was 34 years old, and […]
There are many period products on the market from pads, tampons and cups to discs. Yet, there is a dearth of reliable information about how much menstrual blood they can hold — a useful metric for clinicians as well as consumers. Heavy menstrual bleeding affects up to a third of people who menstruate and that […]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Amid widely differing capacities of available menstrual hygiene products, a menstrual disc—similar in shape to a diaphragm—may be best for dealing with heavy monthly blood flow as well as indicating excessive blood loss, suggests research published online in the journal BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health. Despite the fact that 800 million […]
Starting Monday, more people will be eligible to donate blood. The Food and Drug Administration has changed guidelines that previously excluded most gay and bisexual men from donating. The Red Cross is one of the first blood banks to implement the new guidelines, which now use an individually based risk assessment. It’s a welcomed change […]
Nervous around needles? Mixed reality is here to help. According to America’s Blood Centers, the United States has been suffering from a noticeable lack of blood donors below the age of 30 over the past 10 years; roughly 30% to be more exact. To help quell this growing shortage, Abbot Laboratories, a medical device and […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — More people are now able to donate blood after the Red Cross put new FDA guidelines into place. North Carolina Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley pushed for the change, which no longer excludes people from donating based on their sexual orientation. Kinsley is celebrating donating blood, not just because […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up a property insurer’s appeal in a dispute about whether blood should be considered a pollutant under a homeowners’ policy. Justices declined to hear an appeal by Florida Farm Bureau General Insurance Co. in the dispute about whether the policy excluded coverage for […]
The classic, one-size-fits-all blood pressure cuff being used by most doctor’s offices could be hazardous to your health, experts are warning. A new study, published Monday in respected journal JAMA Internal Medicine, found that standard, or “regular,” blood pressure cuffs are delivering “strikingly inaccurate” readings for patients who required a different size — particularly for […]
“I do hope a lot of officers line up and help,” said Cpl. John Stephens, Accident Reconstruction Specialist. “It’s in the back of mind that it could happen to any one of us any given day, there’s a lot of people in the community that giving blood can affect so – it’s important.”
Denise Gutta, a team supervisor of the American Red Cross, said that the group’s monthly blood drive at Avon Lake Public Library, 32649 Electric Blvd., is consistently one of its most fruitful. Once again, the library had a steady flow of donors Aug. 7, Gutta said. The American Red Cross has a goal to get […]