Category Archives: Blood

Red Cross changes decades-old blood donation policy Link Copied! CNN Medical Correspondent Meg Tirrell reports that new guidelines focused on individual risk-based assessment will allow more gay and bisexual people in the U.S. to give blood. 02:22 – Source: CNN

Monday, August 7, 2023 5:03PM RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — For nearly 20 years Dustin Best couldn’t donate blood like everyone else. Restrictions put in place by the FDA left the Fayetteville man who identifies as gay with few options to give blood. “It hurt. It hurt my feelings.,” he said. The old policy only allowed […]

The American Red Cross is now allowing men who have sex with men to donate blood without restrictions that specifically single out a person’s sexual orientation. The FDA in May dropped a nearly 40-year policy that had singled out men who have sex with men. Under the new guidelines, anyone who has recently had sex […]

WFMZ-TV 69 News provides news, weather, traffic, sports and family programming for the Lehigh Valley, Berks County, Southeastern Pa., Poconos and Western NJ including Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Reading, Kutztown, Emmaus, Quakertown, Stroudsburg, Philadelphia, Jim Thorpe, Doylestown, Phillipsburg, Flemington, Wilmington, and Newark. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area. Your […]

Efforts to honor Erie Police Department Patrol Sergeant David Stucke continue. A blood drive called “Together in Blue” is underway Monday at Erie City Hall where members of the community can help in recovery efforts for patients needing blood. This after Sgt. Stucke was shot while responding to a shots fired call on Sunday, July […]

‘Battle of the Badges’ between police and firefighters supports blood drive in Montgomery County – NBC10 Philadelphia Skip to content Close Menu Contact Us

<div data-thumb="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2023/new-blood-pressure-rel.jpg" data-src="https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2023/new-blood-pressure-rel.jpg" data-sub-html="Pcrit and TPP describe the state of the systemic arterial circulation. a, Schematic showing that the vasculature behaves as a Starling resistor, with circulatory collapse at the distal end of the arteriole when MAP falls below Pcrit, resulting in zero flow. TPP = MAP − Pcrit is defined as the pressure difference driving flow through the […]

WFMZ-TV 69 News provides news, weather, traffic, sports and family programming for the Lehigh Valley, Berks County, Southeastern Pa., Poconos and Western NJ including Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Reading, Kutztown, Emmaus, Quakertown, Stroudsburg, Philadelphia, Jim Thorpe, Doylestown, Phillipsburg, Flemington, Wilmington, and Newark. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area. Your […]

CNN  —  Dr. Georges Benjamin was shocked when he got his vitals checked before undergoing cataract surgery. His blood pressure, it seemed, had skyrocketed. But after a second check from the blood pressure machine, and taking his own blood pressure at home, it had returned to much more acceptable levels. The difference, it turns out, […]