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Photo courtesy of WikiCommons A total of 1,050 units of blood were collected in the first two of five days at the 47th Annual Comic-Con Robert A. Heinlein Blood Drive, the San Diego Blood Bank said Friday. More donors were needed in the coming days to reach the goal of 3,300 pints, said Claudine Van […]
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Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan understands the importance of the most vital organ in our body only too well. When she was in her 20s and embarking on her career in medicine, her mother died from a heart attack at only 42. It came out of nowhere, as she had no known history of heart disease. “I […]
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TOMAH, Wis. (WLAX/WEUX) – Tomah Health and Versiti Blood Center officials are asking area residents to help with a serious need for blood by donating on August 9th or 10th in Tomah. “Overall, blood drives during the summer have been very challenging,” said Versiti Blood Center account representative Emalea Cogdill. She said that with people […]
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Detroit Lakes, Minn. (KDLM) – The Northwest Water Carnival continued Thursday with an American Red Cross blood drive at Grace Lutheran Church hosted by the Detroit Lakes Jaycees. Forty people filled up the signup sheet to donate at the event and the nurses filled every bag with potentially life-saving blood that they had on hand. Allie, […]
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SHERIDAN — Sheridan Memorial Hospital is facilitating community blood drives on July 31 and Aug. 1-2. From 11:30-6 p.m. July 31, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 1 and 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Best Western Sheridan Center, donors may give to the Vitalant blood drive.
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Factcheck: False: People routinely contract COVID through blood transfusions – New York Amsterdam News
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As we enter this new phase of living with COVID-19, myths persist. One false rumor is that people can contract COVID through the blood supply. According to researcher Sonia Bakkour, in a press release promoting her research study “[o]ther studies have shown that in rare cases where a blood sample tested positive, transmission by blood […]
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Anyone looking for an epic conclusion from The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart should look elsewhere. But then, anyone looking for an epic conclusion is most likely watching the wrong show. Venture Bros., the apparently completed Adult Swim series that started life as a mean-spirited riff on Jonny Quest-style adventure-boy […]
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The 44-year-old victim was expected to survive cuts to his hands, elbow, shoulder and foot, as well as an injury to the bridge of the nose, following the attack shortly before 1:30 p.m. Thursday, July 20, Detective Lt. Fred Pulice said. The victim staggered out of the long-unoccupied building at 215 West Englewood Avenue near […]
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Every three weeks, Katrina Crume and Aaron Dean Calloway made the nearly two-hour journey from their home near Owensboro, Kentucky, to Louisville so their baby, Phoebe, could receive a lifesaving blood transfusion. What made these transfusions remarkable was Phoebe was still in the womb. What made them necessary was incompatibility between Katrina’s and Phoebe’s blood. […]