At a recent blood drive in downtown L.A., Los Angeles area resident Terry Brown was both excited — and nervous — to donate blood for the first time in decades. It was Brown’s first time to give blood since the U.S. Food and Drug Association and American Red Cross relaxed its decades-old policy on how […]

Interior of a medical helicopter that can equipped to provide emergency blood transfusions as patients are transported to a trauma care center. Photo by Danielle J. Brown. Trauma physicians and emergency responders gathered at the Martin State Airport in Middle River this week to highlight a new partnership that will allow emergency blood transfusions — […]

High school horror gets a supernatural twist in this ultragory feature. Blood — viscous and dark, venal and menstrual — soaks all the way through “Perpetrator,” Jennifer Reeder’s hyperbolic stab at the high school slasher movie. Noses seep and floors are awash, the treacly ooze serving as both a coming-of-age symbol and a lubricant for […]

@MentallyGone – MDT thought that Covid resulted in new medications prescribed for the pool of high blood pressure patients in the study population and affected the results. High blood pressure was a key “co-morbidity” factor in determining the severity of Covid contracted by at-risk patients. Drugs like Ivermectin and others were being prescribed. The FDA […]