(WETM) — The American Red Cross is experiencing a national blood shortage and is asking people of all blood types to make donations. According to the Red Cross, fewer people than needed donated blood this summer, and Hurricane Idalia put a further strain on the blood supply by causing blood drive cancellations. Currently, hospitals are […]
Tori Kelly is sharing details behind her health scare in July that required hospitalization. The gospel singer, 30, spoke to Entertainment Tonight before her show in New York City on Monday, explaining how grateful she is to be able to perform for her fans after suffering from blood clots. “That just made me even more […]
A new round of COVID-19 boosters will be available within days as cases and hospitalizations continue to rise across the country. The Food and Drug Administration approved the new shots Monday and a CDC advisory panel recommended the updated boosters for all Americans 6 months or older. Amna Nawaz discussed the latest with CDC Director […]
Brian Merchant is a tech reporter, and he’d been covering the industry for years when he started to notice a term that kept coming up. Especially when he wrote a story that was critical of tech, he’d be accused of being a “Luddite.” Like most people, Brian knew at least vaguely what the term “Luddite” […]
Covid infections are putting people at higher risk of diabetes, strokes, heart disease and other long-term illnesses – but experts warn it may be decades before the full impact is known. Meanwhile, could Covid-19 also be blamed for the increased frequency and severity of colds and flu? Has it damaged our ability to fight off […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research to be presented at this year’s Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Hamburg, Germany (2–6 October) shows that following a heart attack, there have been falls in the death rates of both people without diabetes and those with type 2 diabetes, but […]
Blood supply is low, Nebraska blood bank explains how to help before need becomes emergent Updated: 4:21 PM CDT Sep 12, 2023 EXPRESSWAY, IT’S SMOOTH SAILING OUT TO ELKHORN. OKAY. RIGHT NOW, BLOOD SUPPLY IS LOW ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AND THAT INCLUDES NEBRASKA. THE NEBRASKA COMMUNITY BLOOD BANK IS NOT IN AN EMERGENCY YET, BUT […]
BILLINGS — In July of last year, Makenna Letasky noticed her son La’Monte wasn’t acting quite like himself. “I had taken him in to check his blood work to see if he was anemic and his levels came back not so good, so they ended up poking him in his arm rather than just the […]
Overnight, more patients were lab-confirmed as being infected with E. coli, bringing the total to 264 people infected in an outbreak linked to daycare centers in Calgary, Canada. A total of 37 outbreak patients have required hospitalization, and 25 remain hospitalized. Of those remaining in the hospital, 22 have been confirmed by Alberta Health Services […]