CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — Blood inside of a Clayton County home led to the arrest of a man on murder charges, according to the Clayton County Police Department. Police were called to a home on Deann Drive in Ellenwood on July 26 about an injured elderly man. When officers got to the scene, 77-year-old Ivan […]
Nursing homes that regularly use universal decolonization methods like chlorhexidine bathing to clean the skin and iodophor to clean the nose reduces the chance of a patient being transferred to a hospital due to infection. These methods when used in combination with one another also helps lower the amount of antibiotic resistant bacteria within a […]
Diablo 4’s second season, Season of Blood, is headed to the game on Oct. 17 — alongside the action game’s largest patch to date, update 1.2. Thankfully Blizzard has graced us with the patch notes a week early, as they’re just over 14,000 words long. We’ve listed all of the patch notes below, for your […]
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) – The South Bend Medical Foundation has opened the doors to a new blood donation center in the city. The donor center is open Monday through Saturday at 1290 E. Ireland Road in Suite 700, right next door to the Sally Beauty Supply in Erskine Plaza. Donors must be at least […]
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The Armed Services Blood Program is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2023 ASBP’s Lifetime Achievement Award: retired U.S. Army Col. Richard “Rich” Gonzales. He has supported the military blood banking community across varying roles, always making an impact wherever he served. Gonzales retired in 2015 with 30 years of service in the U.S. […]
Extreme pain, strokes and organ failure: These can be debilitating — and sometimes life-threatening — signs of a sickle cell crisis. For more than 100,000 people in the United States with sickle cell disease, most of them of African descent, blood transfusions can offer critical relief from the complications they endure. Some patients may receive […]
A new vaccine indicated for the prevention of malaria in children has been recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).1 The vaccine, R21/Matrix-M, is the second recommended by the organization, potentially alleviating some of the supply issues that have negatively impacted campaigns to control transmission of the virus. This recommendation follows that of the RTS,S/AS01 […]
MINNEAPOLIS — Highly pathogenic bird flu has made its first appearances in U.S. commercial poultry flocks this season, affecting one turkey farm in South Dakota and one in Utah and raising concerns that more outbreaks could follow. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that avian influenza, which is deadly to commercial poultry, was confirmed in […]
A Quebec coroner is recommending the province study reducing the legal blood-alcohol concentration for drivers to .05, but Quebec’s transport minister says lowering the limit is not in the plans. Coroner Yvon Garneau’s recommendation comes in a report made public today into the 2021 death near Drummondville, Que., of Stéphanie Houle, a passenger in a […]