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. […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. A new rapid test uses bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria—to quickly and accurately identify the pathogens that cause urinary tract infections. About one in two women gets cystitis during her lifetime, and many suffer from recurrent urinary tract infections. Bladder […]
In an extremely rare medical case, a scuba diver who descended deep into an underwater cave developed a deadly blood syndrome in which fluid leaked out of his blood vessels. The syndrome was a strange complication of decompression sickness, or “the bends,” in which air bubbles form in the blood as people go from […]
Matthew Stockman/Getty Images University of Colorado head football coach Deion Sanders’ girlfriend Tracey Edmonds said the Pro Football Hall of Fame cornerback had a second successful surgery to remove blood clots this week. Edmonds posted the following Friday on Instagram regarding the procedure and Sanders’ condition: “Thank you Lord for another successful surgery!! We thank […]
Blood drives set for week of Aug. 1 SIDNEY – Give blood during a summer of critical need and get a chance to win Bengals season tickets when you donate at blood drives the week of Aug. 1. The Scott Family McDonald’s community blood drive will be held Tuesday, Aug. 1, from 1-4 p.m. at […]
Sudden deaths have been reported in some young people after COVID-19 but sufficient evidence is not available to confirm the cause, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya told Parliament on Friday. Image used for representational purpose only. Photograph: ANI Photo The Indian Council of Medical Research is conducting three different studies to ascertain the facts regarding […]
SiPhox Health announced a $27M Series A funding round led by Intel Capital to continue development of its at-home blood tests. Founded by MIT scientists Diedrik Vermeulen and Michael Dubrovsky, SiPhox Health can test for 17 biomarkers including inflammation, cardiovascular health and metabolic fitness. Its current offering relies on mail-in samples while its at-home device […]
Scientists have identified possible biomarkers that may make it easier to distinguish patients with Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) from those with diarrhea from other causes. Writing in the journal Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, corresponding author Silvia Vázquez-Cuesta, PhD, of the Complutense University of Madrid, and colleagues, noted that there are a number of […]
Two approved blood cancer treatments, daratumumab and bortezomib, were each partially effective at reducing signs of cold agglutin disease (CAD) in two people with hard-to-treat cases of the autoimmune disorder, a study showed. These two therapies, alone or in combination, also were found to effectively treat five of six people with other types of autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA), […]
