Person who studies all things blood

Dmitry Morozov: Blood (and) Music I mention The Rolling Stones' "Let it Bleed" in a previous post, and so I began to think about music and blood. The word "blood" is often a flashy attention-grabber in any title, be it book, film, art...

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In meinem Thread habe ich damals eine rekombinante Methode zum Nachweis von Endotoxinen vorgestellt, die ohne dem Blut der Pfeilschwanzkrebse auskommt. Diese wurde nun endlich in das US Pharmacopeia Kapitel aufgenommen. #PharmaKnowHow

Sharks Don’t Care (About Your) Period: Menstrual Misconceptions and Ideas About “Blood” as Coercive Means Scientists and other wildlife experts have tested sharks, bears, and other predators, and found that they have very little interest in the presence of menstrual discharge. However, we know they are at...

Haie kennen den Unterschied zwischen Menstruationsflüssigkeit und Blut. Bei ersterer ist ja auch Blut dabei, aber nicht viel, also für hochspezialisierte Raubtiere, die sich auf verletzte Opfertiere konzentrieren, eher uninteressant.

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Key Takeaways
An episode of the painful viral illness shingles is tied to a 20% higher odds of cognitive decline
It's thought that the shingles virus could harm blood flow to the brain
The effect was stronger still among men who carried a gene known to enhance dementia risk

Do people with high blood pressure have a higher risk of Alzheimer's disease? People 60 and older with untreated high blood pressure may have an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease compared to both people who have been or are being treated for high blood pressure as well as p...

Do people with high blood pressure have a higher risk of Alzheimer's disease? www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Frequent Coffee Drinkers Could Put Their Hearts at Risk THURSDAY, Aug. 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Chugging coffee, swilling colas or pounding down energy drinks could cause heart damage over time, a new study warns

Frequent Coffee Drinkers Could Put Their Hearts at Risk www.healthday.com/health-news/...

Antibiotics are failing. The US has a plan to launch a research renaissance. The PASTEUR act plans to incentivize Big Pharma to manufacture in the US. But there’s a downside for the rest of the world.

How to get rid of antibiotic resistance: Could a new law help | Vox www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Editing fetal genomes is on the horizon − a medical anthropologist explains why ethical discussions with the target communities should happen sooner rather than later In the absence of clear-cut regulation, who should decide on where and how a technology that could change the course of human health should be applied?

Editing fetal genomes is on the horizon − Julia Brown, a medical anthropologist, explains why ethical discussions with the target communities should happen sooner rather than later theconversation.com/editing-feta... via @us.theconversation.com

How people died in 1532. (Source: Information is Beautiful)

Coercive Care: Investigating sickle cell, pregnancy, and sterilization A yearlong STAT investigation about people with sickle cell disease who felt pressured into unwanted sterilizations.

STAT's Eric Boodman talked to 50 (fifty!) women with #sicklecell for this series on how for decades, doctors have pushed sickle cell patients to sterilization.

Though the health concerns are real, they're mixed with echoes of eugenics, racism, & other injustices.

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Why does the Olympics mascot look like it's about to teach me about blood clots in my period

If it's automatic and doesn't block your production it might be something to ignore. I do appreciate the care, but yeah, letting machines try to figure out people isn't going to work well.
If you have a reporting sniper, that's a different issue, of course.

Ultrasound patch continuously tracks blood flow in the brain – Physics World Wearable ultrasound patch enables volumetric mapping of the cerebral arteries and continuous monitoring of blood flow in the brain

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Tattoos as a risk factor for malignant lymphoma: a population-based case–control study Our findings suggested that tattoo exposure was associated with an increased risk of malignant lymphoma. More epidemiologic research is urgently needed to establish causality.

🤔

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Predictive blood test hailed as ‘incredibly exciting’ breast cancer breakthrough New ‘liquid biopsy’ will act as an early warning sign to anticipate risk of tumours returning

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Still don't understand why my cell phone's virtual keyboard has to have all playing card symbols, but not a useful, common sign like ≠

Blood flow makes waves across the surface of the mouse brain NIH-funded study challenges conventional wisdom about brain blood flow.

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Hyalomma - Wikipedia

And don't even get me started on these monsters!!!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyalomma

Types of Ticks (with pictures of ticks) | Lymedisease.org A list of types of ticks found in the United States that are known to bite and transmit disease to humans.

I encourage understanding your boundaries and voicing them clearly and neutrally.
And ticks are my personal boundary of things I'm willing to accept as part of my primate life on this planet!!!! Filthy beasts can rot! sorrynotsorry
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Olives, eh? Kind of a let-down, but all right. 😜 Thanks for the education!!!

Let me know if you find out. 😀

I'll admit that I have a hard time wrapping my brain around the new model for drugs that doesn't work hard to keep people hooked on drugs, but just kills them. Surge in demand leads to disposable life. Dreadful.

Cardiologists ID signs of widespread heart disease in ancient mummies Researchers evaluated vascular samples from more than 200 mummies, presenting their findings in European Heart Journal.

Cardiologists ID signs of widespread heart disease in ancient mummies cardiovascularbusiness.com/topics/clini...

Ötzi the Iceman Was a Heart Attack Waiting to Happen Here's how modern heart doctors would treat Ötzi the iceman mummy.

The plot thickens, pun absolutely intended.
www.livescience.com/62689-otzi-i...

Kourtney Kardashian Reposts Photo Showing a Vial of Boyfriend Travis Barker's Blood Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker made their relationship Instagram official in February over Valentine's Day weekend

Turns out I had a favorite Kardashian all along. I am so hip, y'all. 🤣

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America faces worst blood shortage in 20 years Donated blood is saving lives on a daily basis, but hospitals are currently experiencing a shortage.

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Bloody Garbage: Microplastics and Our Blood The most recent unbidden guest in our bloodstream comes from our addiction to petrochemicals: microplastics. What do we know as of now and what can we do?

Another topic that doesn't get nearly the coverage it should. Welcome to the Plasticene era!

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Dragon’s Blood: Humanity, Consent, and Connectedness Humans care very much about their own blood and immediately consider consent when it comes to taking blood. But there's a lot of other blood out there, and who we are is in part the much darker story ...

Not nearly all of the fluid we could call blood on this planet is human. How we relate to the other kinds of blood tells a darker tale of how we have come to define our place in the world.

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Sharks Don’t Care (About Your) Period: Menstrual Misconceptions and Ideas About “Blood” as Coercive Means Scientists and other wildlife experts have tested sharks, bears, and other predators, and found that they have very little interest in the presence of menstrual discharge. However, we know they are at...

Headed for the beach for the Holiday Weekend but worried that urban legends about sharks eating you because you're menstruating? Good news!

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