National blood supply could get a boost How could changes to current policy affect the country's blood supply?
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The stalk carries the retina's nerve connections and blood supply.
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They control half of our blood supply, lead disaster provider.
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Consistent screening of the blood supply is an enormous task.
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These cells grow fast, nourished by the brain's abundant blood supply.
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Neurons are starved of their blood supply and very quickly die.
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The virus, you know, I touched infected blood supply, I guess.
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The storm has also impacted the blood supply in the region.
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They also can develop their own blood supply, something tumors do, too.
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Can the world's blood supply be cleansed of Zika risk with transfusion?
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So I don't think you'd want to limit your blood supply protection.
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What a blood supply really wants is a donor who comes back.
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The organs that UNOS manages are vascular organs that depend on blood supply.
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The total global blood supply was estimated to be around 217 million units.
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"They're worried about the retina that's been away from blood supply for a few weeks now, so they don't really know how much blood supply is there," she tells her loved ones in a PEOPLE exclusive sneak peek of Friday's episode.
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The tumor looked to be mostly solid, and it had its own blood supply.
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Decongestants squeeze blood vessels in the nose, reducing inflammation by restricting the blood supply.
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Schuchat said the FDA is looking into blood supply issues for donors and travelers.
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"The goal is to keep the blood supply safe and not discriminate," Hayes says.
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As the nerve cells lose their blood supply and die, the tissue swells subtly.
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In countries where the blood supply is not screened, transfusions still pose a risk.
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The idea was to give the socket a fresh blood supply while it healed.
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Without a blood supply, a testicle is viable for only four to six hours.
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The process is expensive and isn't currently viable for solving the world's blood supply shortages.
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Science made more difficult by the compromised rich uterine blood supply in a deceased donor.
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To ensure an adequate blood supply we need people to come out and donate blood.
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Most chokeholds block both air and blood supply, which shuts down your system and you faint.
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Zone 2 and 3 fractures can interrupt this blood supply causing it to not heal correctly.
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The HIV crisis of the 1980s put a lot of focus on the U.S. blood supply.
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They need to have an alien go through their blood supply and come out their eyes.
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With a strong blood supply, the New York region can export blood if the need arises.
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A polarized light micrograph of a section of cat skin, showing hairs, whiskers and their blood supply.
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About 74 countries collect more than 90 percent of their blood supply from voluntary unpaid blood donors.
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"The safety of the blood supply must come first," says Ian Green of the Terrence Higgins Trust.
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Dunia's lost muscle, nerve and blood supply to the area, and there's also a lot of scarring.
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Internal hemorrhoids can collapse and be "strangulated" when their blood supply is cut off by anal muscles.
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Blocking adenosine: When cancer cells replicate fast, they can start dying because they outgrow their blood supply.
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Typically the rationale revolves around ensuring that Canada's blood supply system is protected from any potential contamination.
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She added, "Accurate donor histories and medically supported donor deferral criteria are critical" to blood supply safety.
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The Roche test is not currently used to test the blood supply in U.S. states, CDC officials said.
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Unfortunately, cartilage lacks its own blood supply, so it has very little ability to repair itself once damaged.
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They might block the blood supply to the vulnerable area, or injure nearby healthy tissue, or cause haemorrhages.
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Underneath the dentin is a soft tissue known as pulp, which contains the nerve tissue and blood supply.
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The infection appears to have compromised the blood supply to the uterus, causing the need for its removal.
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Trump underwent an embolization procedure, which is meant to cut off the blood supply that feeds the kidney.
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These activities can increase the workload on the heart while decreasing the blood supply to the coronary vessels.
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They temporarily cut off the blood supply to the rats' livers, and then examined the livers six hours later.
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This artificial blood supply was delivered to isolated pig brains, preventing some of the decay typically associated with death.
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To ensure constant blood supply to the speech centers, the ego represses function in other parts of the brain.
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Marks said two companies have been granted special approval to have their tests used to screen the blood supply.
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Ischemic strokes require immediate medical attention and occur when blood supply is cut off to part of the brain.
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"The risk posed by Zika virus to the blood supply is unclear," the organization said in guidance to its members.
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So, while the skin and muscle are perfused at a higher rate, the kidneys are receiving a reduced blood supply.
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The mini brains can&apost grow larger because they aren&apost vascularized, meaning they don&apost have a blood supply .
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Tendons don't have much blood supply, they heal slowly, and they scar instead of generating a brand-new, healthy tendon.
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Did the heart skip into a bad rhythm, one that wasn't able to get enough blood supply to the brain?
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Mesenteric ischemia is a rare, painful condition in which the blood supply to the small intestine slows or closes off.
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With training, a competitor's muscles adapt to a lower blood supply so they can keep that muscle effort going longer.
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He has told STAT that he would pay special attention to the safety of the blood supply and unsafe foods.
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But in poor nations, access to a safe, reliable blood supply is relatively rare, leading to preventable deaths each year.
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This kept blood from flowing from the placenta, depriving the baby of up to a third of its blood supply.
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Embolization "cuts off the blood supply to a certain part of the body," according to the National Institutes of Health.
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The blood supply to the brain branches left and right and then breaks into rivulets and tributaries on each side.
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She enlists Mina and a reluctant Doctor Seward (a Victorian #NotAllMen type) in maintaining the sanctity of England's blood supply.
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Since antlers are bone, they need a blood supply in order to grow, and that is precisely what the velvet provides.
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More complex structures, though, like hearts, livers and pancreases, require a blood supply to grow beyond being tiny slivers of cells.
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But despite the reported hours-long lines snaking around blood centers, authorities are concerned that their blood supply might dry up.
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The doctors are allowed in because Kristen's baby has a tumor attached to it that is draining the baby's blood supply.
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Working together, TNF can burst the blood vessels around a cancer, which allows interferon gamma to cut off the blood supply.
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This extensive blood supply just below the skin helps the pigeon control its body temperature through a process known as thermoregulation.
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He had them reattached, but developed venous congestion, which can quickly lead to loss of blood supply to the reattached area.
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"The fat lobules lose their blood supply, and they respond by calcifying and turning hard, into a lump," says Dr. Euhus.
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Using targeted drugs is also not as exact as simply cutting off blood supply and killing the cancer on the spot.
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None of these options help the blood supply and all of them are discriminatory and damaging to LGBTQ identity. Gay. Men.
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The blood supply to this area of the 5th metatarsal is robust and thus the risk of nonunion is drastically reduced.
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As of March 16, those cancellations resulted in 86,000 fewer donations, a significant detriment to the U.S. blood supply, NBC reported.
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The region's blood supply is "in danger of collapse," Bloodworks Northwest, a blood services and research nonprofit, said in a statement.
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To be successful, a fat graft needs nutrition and so has to be injected into tissue that has a blood supply.
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Blood stores being used to treat Harvey victims will lead to a decrease in the nation's overall blood supply, she said.
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Increases in testosterone cause the blood supply to the velvet to constrict and dry up (be naturally cut off by their body).
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The FDA's recommendation attempted to safeguard the national blood supply by "indefinitely" deferring donations from populations considered to be at high risk.
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OneBlood urges people in the U.S. to become regular blood donors to ensure a safe and available blood supply throughout the year.
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The technique highlighted a patch of his brain to which the blood supply increased whenever Mr Kochevar imagined moving his right arm.
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The extraction is the bloodiest of the episode — which makes sense, because Amber's keloids are growing close to the ear's blood supply.
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But that means about 23 million Americans live with heart failure that blocks blood vessels and reduces blood supply to the body.
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With a large tumor stealing the blood supply, Boemer's fetus was becoming more ill each day, doctors explained to the expectant mother.
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They've shown that a virtually unlimited blood supply can be achieved through a process of "immortalizing" stem cells at an early stage.
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In Dayton, hospitals reported having an adequate blood supply on hand to respond to the shooting, according to the Dayton Daily News.
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There have been no reports so far of the virus getting into the U.S. blood supply, the Food and Drug Administration said.
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They connected up the blood supply between the head and the new body, but did not attempt to connect the spinal cord.
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Loosening that restriction, officials say, would greatly increase the chances of contaminating the blood supply with H.I.V. and other sexually transmitted infections.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) established regulations designed to ensure our blood supply remains among the safest in the world.
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The location of the whisker root is deep in the skin and is associated with a special blood supply and sensory nerves.
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Without ample blood supply to brain cells, or neurons, they will stop working and heavily impair your body&aposs most vital functions.
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The five patients had coronary artery disease, a condition wherein blood vessels are damaged and the heart can't receive enough blood supply.
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Currently, the Red Cross, which claims to provide 40% of the country's blood supply, stores red blood cells for up to 42 days.
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In 2012, he suffered his first mini-stroke, or transient ischemic attack, during which blood supply to the brain is temporarily cut off.
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More worrying, the blood supply to the back of his eye swelled, and parts of his retina thickened, which can cause vision problems.
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Why was the liver so hospitable to metastasis, while the spleen, which had similarities in blood supply, size, and proximity, seemed relatively resistant?
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According to Dr. Stephenson, it was the first instance of a surgery that the patient survived while a mechanical heart maintained blood supply.
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In places where the practice is unpopular, most of the blood supply is usually from paid donors or relatives of those who need transfusions.
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Ischemia-reperfusion injury is the tissue damage that can occur when blood supply (and, consequently, oxygen supply) is temporarily cut off to an organ.
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The FDA also recommended that nearby counties implement the same measures as it moves to prevent transmission of the virus through the blood supply.
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Doctors often treat the condition by cutting off the blood supply so the growth shrinks, added Dr. Lambros Stamatakis of MedStar Washington Hospital Center.
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Below, we explain what this policy means, and ways to navigate it responsibly in order to spread awareness and keep up the blood supply.
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One larger rat acted as the recipient of the operation, whilst the other provided a continuous blood supply to the donor rat's brain tissue.
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Embolization, a procedure pioneered by interventional radiologists, can be used to stop bleeding or to starve a fibroid or tumor of its blood supply.
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Amid uncertainty and crisis, the policy was meant to exclude from the blood supply donors who were high-risk for HIV, notably gay men.
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Then we learn that the concept for this machine began with one doctor's brazen idea of connecting a patient to another person's blood supply.
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In the coming months, the main threat to the blood supply will be the roughly 4,000 travelers infected with the Zika virus while abroad.
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In that case, the FDA also had to rush out an unapproved test to detect the West Nile virus in the blood supply, Ziman said.
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"In animals that bleed during pregnancy, the fetus digs deeply into a mom's uterus so it can have access to her blood supply," says Rowe.
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"So you don't need to take the blood from potential patients and move that into [blood testing labs] in the general blood supply," Medved said.
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So for those of you who don't know, Robin's tumor cannot be removed because it is taking up a large amount of the blood supply.
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In middle-income countries they are heart disease, conditions to do with blood supply to the brain, road accidents and lower back and neck pain.
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In the above situation, the man was likely bitten dozens of times every night until his body couldn't keep up with replenishing the blood supply.
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Dev said that the tumor probably started as an ingrown hair that became infected, and as it grew, it eventually developed its own blood supply.
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Read: Zika explained It's tricky The FDA guidelines might seem strict to some, but keeping Zika completely out of the blood supply could be tricky.
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Previous steps The country's largest blood collection organization, the American Red Cross, had already issued donation guidelines to protect against Zika entering its blood supply.
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"These incremental changes are important steps towards being as minimally restrictive as possible while also maintaining the safety of the blood supply," the answer concludes.
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Because the tissue doesn't have its own blood supply, it has limited capacity to repair itself once damaged, leading to degenerative joint conditions like osteoarthritis.
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They can detect abnormal electrical patterns and find areas where heart muscle is dying, as in the case of inadequate blood supply or heart attack.
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What was once a highway of blood from mother to baby turns into ligaments and some continued connection to blood supply deep inside your body.
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The organization is urging all eligible, healthy donors to donate blood and platelets to help maintain a sufficient blood supply flow and avoid potential shortages.
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And that might help create 3D-printed organs that will have the vascular network and blood supply needed to survive in a real human body.
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Cardiac stress tests use technetium 99m to evaluate the blood supply to the heart, but recent shutdowns of nuclear reactors have resulted in significant shortages.
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In the decades after the war, a growing body of research suggested that the blood supply would be healthier and safer if people voluntarily donated.
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Burwell urged states to quickly step up their anti-mosquito efforts while also boosting public outreach, diagnostics and ensuring the safety of the blood supply.
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Recognizing an unusual patient reaction and reporting it to the platelet supplier and blood supply system administrators is crucial to prevent sepsis associated with contaminated platelets.
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Story at a glance Fears about the coronavirus are negatively impacting the nation's blood supply, and the Red Cross is making an urgent plea for donations.
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The Red Cross keeps a blood supply on hand to respond to emergencies, but it's perishable, and natural disasters interfere with collections in the affected areas.
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Hoping to impress Audrey, the fellow worker he's hopelessly in love with, Seymour names the plant Audrey II and tries to keep the blood supply going.
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He was proud of his invention, and it seemed perfectly suitable for the gum's blood supply, but not so good for using my face in movies.
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They're difficult to diagnose, and drugs struggle to get into the brain as the brain's blood supply is largely separate to the rest of the body.
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The aim is to avoid contaminating the blood supply with the virus, said to AABB, the group that represents most blood donation groups in the United States.
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When she arrived at the hospital that day, the main artery to her heart had torn, cutting off the blood supply to her and her unborn child.
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In the three years since Zipline launched in Rwanda, its drones have made more than 13,000 deliveries and supplies more than half of the country's blood supply.
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A stroke takes place when either a "clot blocks the blood supply to the brain or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts", the CDC says.
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"We've come to a critical juncture: the risk to the blood supply combined with the uncertainty about the nature and extent of Zika virus transmission," Marks said.
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For years, scientists had struggled with living tissue that was too weak to survive long enough to integrate with the body and fuse with its blood supply.
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She said that the Red Cross will continue to use safety measures to protect the blood supply from Zika virus as well as other mosquito-borne viruses.
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One example is in diabetics where the lack of morning erections may be associated with erectile dysfunction due to poor nerve or blood supply to the penis.
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Warmbier's scan, though, is consistent with what's usually seen after cardio-pulmonary arrest, where the blood supply to the brain is inadequate for a period of time.
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The fetus would be sustained by a maternal blood supply, which is oxygenated by an artificial lung, circulated by an artificial heart, and filtered by artificial kidneys.
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There have been no reports that the virus is present in the country's blood supply, though F.D.A. officials have said that Zika transmission through blood is possible.
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At least 4.5 million Americans need donated blood every year, but this is the first time novel coronavirus has been a concern in the nation's blood supply.
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"I think it will be a more rational policy and will continue to provide a safe blood supply, which is the goal of all this," he said.
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The nation's blood supply has been unprecedentedly threatened by the coronavirus, as fears and social distancing measures are leading to thousands of canceled blood drives and centers.
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The further the virus spreads, the greater the area that will need to be supplied by Zika-free regions of the country, potentially squeezing overall blood supply.
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The testes are referred to as a "sanctuary site" within the body, with a natural barrier that prevents free communication with the rest of our blood supply.
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The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday issued new guidelines for blood banks intended to help prevent the contamination of the nation's blood supply with the Zika virus.
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Under a microscope, tiny veins and arteries will be reconnected to provide blood supply for the transplanted tissue and the nerve will allow the lips to feel sensations.
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Such a procedure is typically performed to cut off blood supply to a tumor, aneurysm or abnormal growth, typically growing in the kidney or liver, to shrink it.
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Embolization procedures are used to reduce or cut off the blood supply to an area of the body, often to treat an abnormal growth, such as a tumor.
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Insert the clean tooth into its empty socket as soon as possible to give the periodontal ligaments, nerves and blood supply the best chance to heal and reattach.
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If anything happened to that vessel, the blood supply would be cut off and the tissue there would be injured or even die from a lack of blood.
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The blood supply and nerves that provide feeling travel through the breast tissue so, by definition, removal of breast tissue removes some of those nerves, resulting in numbness.
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After ruling out a tick bite or lyme disease, he was diagnosed with a spinal cord infarction, which is an interruption to the blood supply in the spinal cord.
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To date, there have been no cases of Zika entering the blood supply in the United States, but the FDA is taking measures to ensure it stays that way.
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Although Lindsey's transplant failed when a yeast infection compromised the blood supply to the uterus, she and her husband, Blake McFarland, a police officer, say they have no regrets.
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A UCLA study from 2014 estimates that lifting the restrictions on blood donations for sexually active gay men in America would increase the country's blood supply by 2-4%.
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His team put together a cocktail of melatonin and ketones that might be injected into a person experiencing hemorrhagic shock, to reduce damage to tissues when blood supply returns.
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Background: A stroke happens when brain cells die because the blood supply is interrupted by a clot, or a blood vessel bursts from high blood pressure or an aneurysm.
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With its direct blood supply and more than double the nerves of the penis, the clitoris can reach climax more intensely and in repeated succession far beyond its counterpart.
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The researchers used a special type of brain imaging to identify the patients who still had live brain tissue that could be saved if the blood supply was restored.
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The FDA focused on creating diagnostic tests to detect the presence of Zika, on developing vaccines, and on protecting the nation's blood supply in the case of an emergency.
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A big advantage from a diagnostic perspective is that the device can show a wider range of brain abnormalities, particularly those resulting from a lack of oxygen or blood supply.
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A stroke is a disease that occurs when a blood clot blocks the blood supply to the brain, or a blood vessel in the brain bursts, according to the CDC.
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There have been no reports of the Zika virus entering the United States' blood supply, but experts say it is likely that the infection can be transmitted via contaminated blood.
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According to a GoFundMe page set up on the family's behalf, the infection cut off oxygen and blood supply to part of her right leg, which will now be amputated.
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An embolization procedure is typically performed to cut off blood supply to a tumor, aneurysm or abnormal growth, typically growing in the kidney or liver, to shrink the foreign mass.
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The FDA has taken measures to protect the U.S. blood supply by asking individuals who have returned from infected areas to defer donating blood for four weeks after their return.
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He says even the one-year ban has a harmful focus when it comes to assessing what, or who, is a potential threat to the safety of the blood supply.
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Although babesiosis doesn't seem to be spreading quickly to other parts of the country, it "is currently an infectious risk to the U.S. blood supply," Stramer and her colleagues write.
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"We have taken great care to ensure this policy revision is backed by sound science and continues to protect our blood supply," the FDA's acting commissioner said at the time.
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Racing against the clock to keep the transferred tissue alive by surgically restoring the blood supply, Dagum looked through a microscope and sewed vein to vein and nerve to nerve.
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Before 1992, the disease spread through blood transfusions and organ transplants, according to the C.D.C. Since then, those sources of infection have been virtually eliminated because of blood supply screening.
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The University of Minnesota Medical Center, like many hospitals across the country, has postponed elective surgeries, including those that treat slow-moving cancers, in order to extend its blood supply.
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But some within the FDA and its outside advisory panels remain firmly opposed to changing the policy until there's more proof that it wouldn't create risks for the blood supply.
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If the pain results from ligament damage, veterinarians sometimes try nonsurgical reconstruction with injections that increase the blood supply to the area where a damaged ligament attaches to the bone.
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Between April 2 and June 11, the new test discovered 68 active cases of Zika out of a total of 12,777 blood donations, and officials removed those from the blood supply.
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The researchers then minimized the amount of time that the transplant heart was disconnected from a blood supply by hooking the organs up to a mechanical lung system that provided nutrients.
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Recent studies, for example, have found that there is a physical connection between the immune system and the brain's blood supply, and now there seems to be a more psychological connection.
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"Because they're sharing the same amniotic sac, their umbilical cords can become tangled as they're growing and moving which can cut off blood supply to one or both twins," she continues.
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If the FDA truly needed to promote sound science and protect the blood supply, they should have also placed the one year abstinence restriction on women of color and the elderly.
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The so-called "cuff method" involves strapping an inflatable cuff over the upper arm to temporarily cut off the blood supply, then calculating the blood pressure once the cuff is relaxed.
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"Human cells are unlikely to behave entirely normally within a chimera," said Knoepfler; cells from the host species are far more prevalent, providing the blood supply and connective tissue, for instance.
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The complexity came from the fact that this tissue had to come with the transplant but the blood supply would not be supplied by the blood vessels in the penis itself.
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The doctors said he had "extensive loss of brain tissue in all regions of his brain," most likely caused by cardiopulmonary arrest that cut off the blood supply to his brain.
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Hurricane Florence has also impacted the blood supply in the region, as more than 120 blood drives have been canceled in Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
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Within 48 hours, the bots had successfully grabbed onto vascular cells at the tumor sites, causing blood clots in the tumor's vessels and cutting off their blood supply, leading to their death.
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As he explained, this is vitally important since many organs — especially lungs and hearts — get damaged or die in transport because of lack of blood supply, time limitations and geographical logistical challenges.
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The FDA on Tuesday issued guidance "in order to protect the U.S. blood supply" recommending that donations from people viewed as at risk of having the virus be deferred for four weeks.
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Officials have been rushing to protect the nation's blood supply from the Zika virus, which has been linked to temporary paralysis in adults and brain damage in infants born to infected mothers.
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Andrews notes that natural disasters can continue to wreak havoc on the local blood supply after they're over—for instance, by making it impossible for trucks carrying donations to reach afflicted areas.
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Dr. Michael Busch, director of the BSRI said he believes his institute could refine the test and screen the Puerto Rican blood supply until a commercial test becomes available later this year.
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Cells are constantly experiencing changes in oxygen availability, such as when muscles work during exercise, during altitude changes, or even in a localized way when a wound interrupts the local blood supply.
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Tigenix added that in one subgroup of trial patients associated with a poor long-term outlook, there was a larger reduction in the size of infarction, tissue death due to inadequate blood supply.
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When the body reacts to bee stings, bug bites, or other extreme allergies, the muscles around the airway and the blood vessels tighten up, choking the person's breath and throttling their blood supply.
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While her cause of death has been determined to be blood loss, the rope could have caused Savanna to become unconscious by cutting off the blood supply to her head, Younggren reportedly said.
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Furber notes that there are already plasmapheresis clinics around the country, which remove a person's blood supply, spin out the plasma, and replace it with new plasma over the course of several hours.
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Hopes for the drug, which starves tumors of blood supply, received a major boost in March when a late-stage clinical trial produced strongly positive results in colon cancer, lifting Chi-Med shares.
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Tests are a critical measure to make sure Zika stays out of the national blood supply; because 80 percent of Zika infections are asymptomatic, using questionnaires to suss out unqualified donors doesn't really work.
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But the study of the blood supply and demands for transfusions based on common health issues in 195 countries found that 240 of them may not have enough blood to meet the population's needs.
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In particular, the researchers saw increased signs of brain infarcts, or areas of dead tissue caused by a block in the blood supply to the brain, when looking at postmortem tissue under a microscope.
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It turned out the vein was too short to reach a crucial blood supply in the neck so Dagum scrambled to collect a second vein from the boy's upper arm to make the connection.
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The kidneys are temporarily impacted during marathon running for various reasons, one being that some of the blood supply kidneys typically receive is being pumped to the body's muscles instead of the organ, Parikh said.
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There are no updated figures on how the US's blood supply or how many people would be affected by the current 12-month ban as studies have not been performed, according to the Williams Institute.
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Zipline now delivers more than 250% of Rwanda's blood supply outside Kigali, the nation's capital, and through a partnership with the Rwandan government, it now has clearance to deliver vaccines and other essential medical supplies.
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The muscles and blood supply from the donor body would then be joined with Spiridonov's head, and he would be kept in a coma for three to four weeks to prevent movement as he healed.
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"What we do know is that the blood supply in the brain is incredibly important, and that maintaining a healthy heart and blood pressure is associated with a lower risk of developing dementia," she said.
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A veterinarian determined that he had died of gastric torsion, which caused his stomach to flip over, cutting off its blood supply — a condition that is thought to be caused by several factors, including stress.
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Intriguing questions were raised, too, like whether a female fish could appropriately be called a woman and, if you had to choose, whether you'd be best off with only half, or twice, your blood supply.
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The placenta allows oxygen and nutrients to pass through the mother's blood supply to the fetus through the umbilical cord and also ensures the disposal of any waste.. This particular study looked at placental macrophages.
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The drug industry has invented advanced drugs proven to beat back this disease, including specialty chemotherapy agents such as panitumumab and "angiogenesis inhibitors," which prevent colon cancer cells from growing by cutting off their blood supply.
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Government loyalty boards asked employees whether they believed the blood supply of the Red Cross ought to be desegregated, the poll tax abolished, and federal anti-lynching legislation passed—all policies advocated by the Communist Party.
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Since it started its pilot program in Rwanda in 2016, Zipline's drones have flown more than 185,000 miles and now account for 20 percent of the the country's blood supply in rural areas, according to IEEE.
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Women have the thickest uterine lining of all mammals, so to get deep enough to have access to the blood supply, the human placenta must be very aggressive — think of this as an evolutionary arms race.
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Trump would have remained in the hospital for almost a week when the recovery for the kind of procedure she underwent — an embolization that cuts off the blood supply to the kidney — is typically a day.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Several Chinese cities have declared that a shortage in blood supply for clinical use was imminent, state media reported on Tuesday, as travel curbs due to the coronavirus outbreak keep potential donors at home.
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Expanded testing will continue to reduce the risk for transmission of Zika virus through the U.S. blood supply and will be in effect until the risk of transfusion transmission of Zika virus is reduced, the FDA said.
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"Right now, the Red Cross is encouraging eligible individuals to make an appointment to give in the coming weeks to help ensure a sufficient blood supply moving forward," the Red Cross said in a statement to Tonic.
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The U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa also have been identified by CDC as areas with active Zika transmission, but both already import their blood supply from the continental United States and Hawaii, respectively, the FDA said.
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"We are arranging the importation of blood products from areas unaffected by local Zika transmission to ensure the safety of Puerto Rico's blood supply," Dr. Karen DeSalvo, acting assistant secretary for health, wrote in a statement Monday.
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"We appreciate the uncertainty following the emergence of Zika virus in 2015 and 2016, and remain committed to continuously monitoring for Zika virus activity and taking proactive actions to safeguard the blood supply when necessary," Stamer said.[NEJM]
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Cat SkinCredit: David Linstead A polarized light micrograph—a type of microscopy in which filters allow only light traveling in a specific orientation to pass—of cat skin, showing hairs (yellow), whiskers (also yellow), and blood supply (black).
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Still, the results underscore the importance of a safe and secure blood supply and the unmet needs in many parts of the world, Thierry Burnouf of Taipei Medical University in Taiwan, writes in an editorial accompanying the study.
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The team is also limited by geography: "There is a finite time the tissue tolerates being outside the body without the blood supply...we have a travel radius where we know the flying time is acceptable," he says.
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Such a procedure would block the blood supply that feeds the kidney and might be used to stop bleeding from a benign tumor, a small aneurysm or to reverse the growth of such a tumor, according to specialists.
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SHANGHAI, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Several Chinese cities have declared that a shortage in blood supply for clinical use was imminent, state media reported on Tuesday, as travel curbs due to the coronavirus outbreak keep potential donors at home.
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"I am too fat for a lot of things — I point out that a plane seat is so physically painful that it is cutting off the blood supply to [my] legs, I get asked to lose weight," she wrote.
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One in five people inherit high levels of Lp(a), which leads to the gradual narrowing of arteries, limiting blood supply to the heart, brain, kidneys and legs, thereby raising the risk of blood clots, heart attack and stroke.
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This type of brain injury is usually seen as a result of cardiopulmonary arrest, meaning heart or lung malfunctions may have prevented oxygen from reaching the brain through a person's blood supply, causing brain tissue to die, he explained.
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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday took steps to safeguard the nation's blood supply from the Zika virus, calling for all blood banks to screen donations for the infection even in states where the virus is not circulating.
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"Imagine seven surgeries to try and preserve fertility and allow us to have the children we have so desperately longed for, followed by failed IVF because the surgeries depleted my ovarian reserve due to compromised blood supply," Walsh wrote.
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A vessel in Ms. Roy's scalp — one that Dr. Langer called "the Michael Jordan artery," because his can be seen pulsing at his temple — would be rerouted to feed a deeper artery whose blood supply had been cut off.
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Stem cells home in on the bone marrow, and the reason for such a big dose was to give the new cells the best possible chance to displace Elianna's defective ones and produce a healthy blood supply for her.
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Another trial under way now: tagging the patient's own T-cell immune cells with a specific virus in the lab and injecting them into the patient's bloodstream in the hope that it will directly attack the tumor's blood supply.
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The condition, called acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (aTTP), is a life-threatening, autoimmune disorder characterized by clot formation in small blood vessels throughout the body, cutting off blood supply to various body parts and potentially causing strokes and heart attacks.
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While waiting for Congress to act on Zika funding, the C.D.C. said it had redirected $85 million from other budget items to states and United States territories, mostly to build up laboratories, fight mosquitoes, increase surveillance and protect the blood supply.
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Stramer said even in Hawaii, which is currently experiencing an outbreak of another mosquito-borne tropical disease, dengue fever, the risk of contamination of the blood supply from Zika is low because there has been no known transmission within the islands.
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"We've had patients that have reached out to us and have been told there's really only a five-day blood supply in their area or who have been told we won't be able to give you blood this week," Butler said.
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Mr Nair says he often uses music in cases where he needs to stop the blood supply to the kidney for the safe excision of a tumour: this is a time-sensitive manoeuvre, and music can help to provide a tempo.
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Dr. Louis Katz, chief medical officer for America's Blood Centers, said it would take a "titanic" effort to implement testing in the first-tier states expected to be online in four weeks, but stressed the organization's commitment to a safe blood supply.
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Dr. Alyssa Ziman, medical director of the clinical laboratories and transfusion medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, said the new recommendations for Zika follow the similar steps the FDA took to protect the blood supply from the West Nile virus.
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Thousands of people packed OneBlood donation centers in Florida for the second day in a row in an effort to help replenish the blood supply for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, which killed 49 victims and injured dozens more.
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We're delivering a significant percentage of the national blood supply on a day to day basis and we allow hospitals across the country to get instant access to any blood product that a patient needs on either a routine or an emergency basis.
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According to the Red Cross, current methods of testing the blood supply for HIV can detect the virus four to seven days after infection, with current testing methods leaving the risk of HIV infection from a blood transfusion at 1 in 1,467,000.
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But "my guess is that high-intensity exercise does a better job at improving brain vascularity and neuronal blood supply," says Daniel Corcos, a professor of human movement sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine who helped to lead the study.
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"After discussion with the stroke specialists, it was felt that his small stroke was most likely secondary to the compressed effect the air pocket was having on his brain's blood supply, leading to a lack of blood and subsequent stroke," Brown said.
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James Newsome, who did not disclose why he visited a hospital in January, but said that he contracted Strep A while there, told Fox 2 Detroit that the infection resulted in septic shock, which cut off the blood supply in his arms and legs.
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"The American Red Cross truly appreciates the support of members of Congress for doing their part to help ensure a sufficient blood supply is available for patients in need," Jodi Sheedy, director of Biomedial Communications at the American Red Cross, told ITK in a statement.
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These organizations, after all, are major sources of the blood supply in the U.S. To balance the need to support these organizations with your displeasure with the ban, seek out organizations that are working to advocate for the ban's repeal in favor of other alternatives.
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As donations arrive—about 27,2000 of them per week is the norm—they'll be screened with the usual battery of tests that keep the blood supply safe, plus one more: a test for antibodies to SARS-CoV-433, the virus that causes Covid-000.
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Giesing, who saw his star in the ascendant, agreed, but claims to have pointed out to the patient that all cocaine was absorbed by the nasal mucous membrane and passed into the blood supply, so he had to warn against too high a dose.
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The World Health Organization issued recommendations on Friday for safeguarding the blood supply from the Zika virus, but said blood collection might need to continue in some affected areas, despite concerns that the virus may be linked to birth defects and a form of temporary paralysis.
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"The 12-month figure follows the lead of seven other countries, particularly Australia, which reported that its 12-month deferral had no negative effect on the blood supply," said Jason Silverstein, a lecturer in the department of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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Well, if the FDA lifted its previous total ban of gay and bisexual men donating blood, it could have increased the nation's annual blood supply by 4%, according to a 2014 research brief (PDF) that Gates co-authored and that was published by the Williams Institute.
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In the funny way that magic tales and science fiction sometimes become reality, if you swap out sleigh bells for drones and gifts for emergency medical supplies, you've got the real world tale of Zipline, a company delivering 20% of national blood supply via drone in Rwanda.
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"In the future, should Zika virus transmission occur in other areas, blood collection establishments will be able to continue to collect blood and use the investigational screening test, minimizing disruption to the blood supply," said Peter Marks, director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.
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"In my 31 years, I've not been as concerned about what could happen to the blood supply as I am now simply because of the degree of influence the coronavirus is having over public decisions," Chris Hrouda, president of Red Cross Blood biomedical services, told CNN.
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On Thursday, doctors caring for Mr. Warmbier at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center delivered grim news: He had suffered "extensive loss of brain tissue in all regions of his brain" most likely caused by "cardiopulmonary arrest," which cut off the blood supply to his brain.
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You are more susceptible to frostbite if you smoke, take medications called beta-blockers, have poor blood supply to the legs, or have diabetes or Raynaud syndrome, a condition in which strong emotions or cold temperatures cause blood vessels to spasm and block blood flow to extremities.
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"There are experts who suggest that there are screening strategies that yield a safe blood supply but do not rely on blanket bans of segments of the population," said Gary Gates, former research director of the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.
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" Goodwin added that a safety monitoring system for the blood supply has been implemented nationally to help inform future actions the FDA may take on blood donor policies: "Moving forward, the FDA will continue to reevaluate and update its blood donor deferral policies as new scientific information becomes available.
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More important, say public-health experts, is to boost confidence in the safety of vaccines and trust in the authorities that recommend them—both badly damaged in many European countries by pastpublic-health mis-steps, such as a scandal with contaminated blood supply in France from the late 1990s.
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OneBlood, which collects more than one million blood products annually, including in Florida, had planned to shift collections from affected areas to ones that were not to maintain the safety of the blood supply with no interruption of their services, said Dr. Rita Reik, the chief medical officer.
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These include the very rare Powassan virus, which can cause permanent neurological damage or death; babesiosis, which damages blood cells and is a problem for the blood supply; and Lyme disease, which infects about 300,000 Americans a year and can cause meningitis or partial paralysis if it's not treated.
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"We are moving more and more away from first generation cell therapy," said Povsic, who is involved in two ongoing trials looking at the effect of selected cells from bone marrow in patients with heart failure or angina, a type of heart disease that reduces blood supply to the heart.
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"Surprisingly, even though the stents improved blood supply, they didn't provide more relief of symptoms compared to drug treatments, at least in this patient group," said Rasha Al-Lamee, lead author of the study and a researcher at the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, in a statement.
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"We test 35 percent of the blood supply, so in order to be able to do that in all states in 12 weeks, we are going to need additional pieces of equipment," said Marc Pearce, a spokesman for C.T.S. — 12 more Panthers and one more machine that runs the Roche test.
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"What we do know is that the blood supply in the brain is incredibly important, and that maintaining a healthy heart and blood pressure is associated with a lower risk of developing dementia," said Carol Routledge, Director of Research at Alzheimer's Research UK, who was not involved in the research.
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When the actual attack hits, it feels like the moment someone jumps out and scares you in a haunted house, except it lasts for 0003, 20, 30 minutes at a time — words flying through my head unattached to any meaning, limbs tingling as if blood supply has slowed to a drip.
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"The tissue plains are being dissected by the infection, the blood flow to the skin is cut off and so all this tissue winds up dying because the infection is cut off the blood supply to the skin, that's sort of the reason why it gets that scary name," Dr. Conway said.
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"We hope that the work that we are doing in this area combined with the input that we receive will allow us to be able to move toward more individual risk assessment while maintaining the safety of the blood supply for those individuals who need blood transfusion," Marks said in the statement.
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If your loved one is over 60, read this What parents can do to face coronavirus anxiety How to help others With schools closing,, here's how you can help feed insecure children How to help your favorite small businesses survive the coronavirus crisis Coronavirus is threatening America's blood supply and food banks.
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"We must take every possible step to secure our nation's blood supply in this critical time, and in order to do so, we need to shift away from antiquated and stigmatizing donation policies to ones that are scientifically sound, based on individual risk, and inclusive of all potential healthy blood donors," the letter said.
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In his artist's statement for the sculpture, he cites a 2014 UCLA Williams Institute study, which estimated that lifting the ban on men who have sex with men would increase the total annual blood supply in the US by two to four percent, and could be used to help save the lives of more than a million people.
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"The principle behind using thermography is that infrared heat cameras can be used to map patterns of heat and blood flow close to the surface of the body," said Rubin in a statement, who explained that cancer tumors generate heat as they tend to have a good blood supply but they vary hugely in size and position.
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Grating it forces the enzymes inside the rhizome to combine, which creates all the flavour and taste, but they also create something else called isothiocyanates, or ITCs, and that help break down the response to cancer cells, so it helps slow down the blood supply to cancer cells, so theoretically, it can help combat cancer growth.
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"These findings stress the importance of protecting the blood supply to the brain in order to protect against dementia," said senior study author Dr. David Llewellyn of the University of Exeter Medical School in the UK. "By focusing upon lifestyle factors that are within our control we can reduce our risk of developing dementia as a result of stroke," Llewellyn said by email.
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Hospitals don't use blood from paid donors because the World Health Organization is emphatic that it is much safer to have a blood supply that relies on donations from volunteers—the argument being that if you are paying someone for blood, then they're probably going to want to do it more often than is good for them, because they're getting money for it.
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According to Christian Kikuchi MD, Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgery Fellow at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore Maryland, "typically for the professional and collegiate athletes we recommend operative treatment (for zone 23 and 3 fractures) as it allows them to get back to competition quicker with nonoperative management and a lower rate of nonunion" The reason zone 2 and 3 fractures have a high nonunion rate, and why zone 1 Dancer's Fractures don't, has to do with blood supply.
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