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A Nebraska couple sued state health officials Thursday, arguing their rights were violated when their newborn baby was seized by sheriff's deputies so a mandatory blood test could be performed.
In Hawaii, where blood and ancestry matter as in no other state, a legal challenge is posing this question: Who is sufficiently Hawaiian?
Much of the stored blood given to millions of people every year may lack a component vital for it to deliver oxygen to the tissues. Nitric oxide, which helps keep blood vessels open, begins breaking down as soon as blood goes into storage, two research teams report in separate studies in this week's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Blood banks look at the nation's Hispanic population boom and see an unexpected potential to save thousands of lives: the possibility of more so-called universal blood donors.
THAT office job might be raising your blood pressure in more ways than one.
Red blood cells can be used like rafts to protect therapeutic nanoparticles from the immune system and ferry them to specific targets in the body, researchers have found.
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — A valve on a truck hauling animal waste from a Klamath Falls processing plant broke, spilling 4,000 pounds of pig blood. A biohazards cleaning company from Prineville was called in to clean up about 200 feet of roadway flooded by the blood.
A newly developed blood test can determine with 90% accuracy whether a person has been exposed to dangerous levels of radiation, and far more quickly than current tests, a new study suggests.
You're rushed into hospital and need a blood transfusion – but what is your blood group? In future, it may not matter, thanks to enzymes that scrub antigens from red blood cells, turning all donated blood into group O – which can be given safely to anyone.
Flyers in upscale doctors' offices portray it as the hot new baby-shower gift: a registry where friends and family chip in almost $2,000 to start privately banking a newborn's umbilical cord blood, just in case of future illness.
Ray and Louise Spiering wanted to observe a period of silence after their daughter Melynda's birth, but what they got was an uproar.
A dramatic rise in the number of hemorrhagic strokes in the US during the 1990s may be linked to increased use of the anti-clotting drug warfarin.
U.S. officials, worried that a new Leonardo DiCaprio film about the trade of "conflict diamonds" to finance African warfare might misinform the public, say international efforts to combat the illicit commerce have been successful.
"He has only forbidden you dead meat and blood, and the flesh of swine and that on which any other name has been invoked besides that of God." (The Koran, 2:173)
Among people who have had blood clots, men are twice as likely as women to have them again after finishing treatment, according to an analysis of several studies.
Since MSNBC switched on a decade ago, the question has hung over its executives' heads: Is there really a need for three all-news networks? MSNBC's energetic legal correspondent turned general manager Dan Abrams said it's a fair query, but really should be addressed to his competitors at CNN.
The effort to develop substitutes for human blood, for use in emergencies from highways to battlefields, suffered a setback Thursday.
A heart surgeon had to take a break from a mercy-mission operation in El Salvador so he could donate his own rare-type blood for his 8-year-old patient.
Imagine being in a car crash, lying unconscious and bleeding in an ambulance. With no blood on board, paramedics give you an experimental substitute, but even at the hospital, you get fake blood for several hours before doctors try the real thing.
Horror movies aren't all bad. Love the films or hate 'em, at least they put their huge success to good use. Each Halloween they hold a blood drive in association with the American Red Cross.
...Sutton, 24, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in August. She was arrested by Tempe police in February after she repeatedly stabbed her lover during an alcohol- and drug-fueled sexual tryst.
In the 10 months since the U.S.
MIT scientists propose that blood may help us think, in addition to its well-known role as the conveyor of fuel and oxygen to brain cells.
Researchers at Stanford University have developed a potentially pathbreaking blood test that, according to preliminary studies, is able to identify patients with Alzheimer's disease - an ailment that has been notoriously difficult to diagnose.
During a pep rally inside the school's gymnasium Friday afternoon, the senior football players took to the court to play a game of tug-of-war with the junior football players.
Most people picture century-old paintings, jewelry and cash as typical targets of an elaborate heist. But thieves have branched out. From birch bark to beer, or in some cases even parrots and pigs, there's been some peculiar pilfering.
Researchers say that after leaving the body, the banked blood almost immediately starts losing the vital gas called nitric oxide. This gas is believed to be very important for delivering oxygen to body tissue.
Understanding your body's timetable is essential to lead to a healthy life. Do not do anything that against to your body's clock. How much do you know about the functionality of your body's clock?
BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier cried Thursday as he told a court-martial that his staff sergeant ordered him to shoot an unarmed Iraqi. He said the sergeant then laughed and told the trooper to finish the job as the dying man convulsed on the ground.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was allowed to speak at Columbia University on Monday, September 24, 2007 in a precedent setting event that President George Bush later said "spoke volumes" about freedom of speech in America.
Tiny particles of air pollution -- less than one tenth the width of a human hair -- can trigger clotting in the blood, U.S. researchers said on Thursday in a finding that helps explain how air pollution causes heart attacks and strokes.
Scientists have shown for the first time that platelets, the cells needed for blood clotting, help white blood cells called neutrophils fight inflammation.
An estimated half-million women and young girls are trafficked annually for the purpose of sexual slavery.
Like most people, I hate getting my clothes stained. But, with two little kids in the house, it's almost unavoidable.
The main motivation for this initiative is the push to develop RFID standards for labeling and tracking blood in the global supply chain, from donor to patient. The initiative will seek to develop a standard for RFID tag size and data layout.
Dozens of blood banks in Peru have been closed after at least four people were infected with the HIV virus through contaminated transfusions.
Who says romance is dead? A Cambodian man has been arrested after injecting a woman with his own blood in a poorly thought-out scheme to win her affections, police said on Wednesday.
A Cambodian man was arrested after injecting a woman with his own blood in a bizarre scheme to win her affections, police said Wednesday.
•Kate McCann is being quizzed by police this morning. Mr McCann will be interviewed at the police station at 2pm •Madeleine's mother formally named as official suspect - and fears she could be charged today over her daughter's disappearance.
Using lasers to kill virus' in human blood
It has been said that war is the price of peace? Angola and Sierra Leone have already paid too much. Let them live a better life. Ambassador Juan Larrain, Chairman of the Monitoring Mechanism on sanctions against UNITA.
This is a big deal. Phylis Canion holds the head of what she is calling a chupacabra that may have killed her chickens. One veterinarian thinks it's a strange breed of dog; she wants to have DNA tests done.
Scientists have found the means by which cancer spreads through the use of platelets
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