<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>2,000 deaths after doctors 'ignored HIV blood alerts' : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/"/><tagline>2,000 deaths after doctors 'ignored HIV blood alerts' : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2009, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2009-01-09T07:33:14+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[2,000 deaths after doctors 'ignored HIV blood alerts']]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16868/1/" /><id>16868</id><summary><![CDATA[2,000 deaths after doctors 'ignored HIV blood alerts']]></summary><issued>2007-04-18T10:41:45+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-18T10:41:45+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Doctors ignored warnings about contaminated blood that may have led to the deaths of more than 2,000 patients, it has been claimed.]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;margin-bottom:-20px'><SCRIPT src="/ads/adsense.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT>
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<entry><title><![CDATA[Good News For Vampires Everywhere - Scientists Create Blood From Stem Cells]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/73094/1/" /><id>73094</id><summary><![CDATA[Good News For Vampires Everywhere - Scientists Create Blood From Stem Cells]]></summary><issued>2008-08-21T11:37:44+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-21T11:37:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scientists have used embryonic stem cells to generate blood -- a feat that could eventually lead to endless supplies of type O-negative blood, a rare blood type prized by doctors for its versatility]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Give some blood, maybe win a car]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28307/1/" /><id>28307</id><summary><![CDATA[Give some blood, maybe win a car]]></summary><issued>2007-07-21T10:34:30+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-21T10:34:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Blood donors typically get juice, a cookie and a thank you, but the local Red Cross has parked a new car outside a hospital to entice more people to help ease a blood shortage. The pearl white 2007 Lincoln MKX crossover vehicle has a sign that reads: &quot;Win this car. Give Blood.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Gay Blood No Good]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/59118/1/" /><id>59118</id><summary><![CDATA[Gay Blood No Good]]></summary><issued>2008-04-21T09:37:16+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-21T09:37:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The GLBT wing of Amnesty recently highlighted that in the UK, the National Blood Service still refuses donations of blood from gay men.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Deaths from terror down, rocket deaths up]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/45877/1/" /><id>45877</id><summary><![CDATA[Deaths from terror down, rocket deaths up]]></summary><issued>2008-01-03T02:33:10+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-03T02:33:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[New data by Israel-based emergency response organization Hatzalah shows terror-related deaths have fallen while rocket-inflicted injuries have spiked.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Scientists create 'plastic' blood]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19907/1/" /><id>19907</id><summary><![CDATA[Scientists create 'plastic' blood]]></summary><issued>2007-05-11T13:50:33+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-11T13:50:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scientists have developed an artificial plastic blood which could act as a substitute in emergencies.<br/><br/>sounds good to me, no more blood banks, no more shortages, and best of all no more risk of receiving contaminated blood.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Device Can Spot Cancer Cells In Blood]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44793/1/" /><id>44793</id><summary><![CDATA[Device Can Spot Cancer Cells In Blood]]></summary><issued>2007-12-20T01:39:34+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-20T01:39:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A highly sensitive microchip may help doctors detect rare traces of cancer circulating in the bloodstream.The device can isolate, count and analyze circulating tumor cells from a blood sample. 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After examining two patients, the scientists now understand that the new type of haemoglobin distorts the level of oxygen measured.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Blood group conversions - potential life-saving development!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/15004/1/" /><id>15004</id><summary><![CDATA[Blood group conversions - potential life-saving development!]]></summary><issued>2007-04-03T08:30:27+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-03T08:30:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have apparently found a way to convert blood of any group into &quot;O negative&quot; type blood, which can be donated to people of all blood groups.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[HIV blood killed haemophilia patients]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16905/1/" /><id>16905</id><summary><![CDATA[HIV blood killed haemophilia patients]]></summary><issued>2007-04-18T15:51:32+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-18T15:51:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The program created by NHS, a well-known health services in Britain, was meant to supply haemophiliacs with new blood product but it turned out that blood was infected with HIV and Hepatitis C.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Spit Tests May Soon Replace Many Blood Tests]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/55729/1/" /><id>55729</id><summary><![CDATA[Spit Tests May Soon Replace Many Blood Tests]]></summary><issued>2008-03-25T23:45:30+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-25T23:45:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[One day soon patients may spit in a cup, instead of bracing for a needle prick, when being tested for cancer, heart disease or diabetes. 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Replacing blood draws with saliva tests promises to make disease diagnosis, as well as the tracking of treatment efficacy, less invasive and costly.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Woman Switches Blood Type After Liver Transplant]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/48242/1/" /><id>48242</id><summary><![CDATA[Woman Switches Blood Type After Liver Transplant]]></summary><issued>2008-01-24T11:32:04+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-24T11:32:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[After receiving a Liver Transplant, Demi-Lee Brennan (9) was healing well, but nine months later on a check up, it was found that stem cells had migrated to her bone marrow, completely re working her Blood type and immune system.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Menstrual blood 'can repair hearts']]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/59615/1/" /><id>59615</id><summary><![CDATA[Menstrual blood 'can repair hearts']]></summary><issued>2008-04-25T03:43:05+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-25T03:43:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[<a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/science/l/59388/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Menstrual blood</a> can be used to repair heart damage, Japanese researchers said today. 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Some 20 per cent of the cells began beating spontaneously about three days after being put together in vitro with cells from the hearts of rats.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Jehovah's Witness mother dies after refusing blood]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40657/1/" /><id>40657</id><summary><![CDATA[Jehovah's Witness mother dies after refusing blood]]></summary><issued>2007-11-05T08:57:58+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-05T08:57:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A 22-year-old woman died within a few hours of giving birth to twins because, as a Jehovah's Witness, she was not allowed to accept a blood transfusion.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Donated blood quickly loses important gas]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37754/1/" /><id>37754</id><summary><![CDATA[Donated blood quickly loses important gas]]></summary><issued>2007-10-08T21:09:34+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-08T21:09:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Nitric oxide appears to break down almost immediately after red blood cells leave the body, rendering much of the blood stored in blood banks impaired.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Would you drink your own blood for $40,000?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/81622/1/" /><id>81622</id><summary><![CDATA[Would you drink your own blood for $40,000?]]></summary><issued>2008-11-11T18:35:45+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-11T18:35:45+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A radio station in Edmonton AB, had a college student on the air Halloween morning where he drank a pint of his own blood fresh from the tap.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Woman stabs tied-up lover to drink blood]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39349/1/" /><id>39349</id><summary><![CDATA[ Woman stabs tied-up lover to drink blood]]></summary><issued>2007-10-23T21:22:15+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-23T21:22:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A woman who stabbed her tied-up lover so she could drink his blood has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Human blood vessels grown in mice]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/69383/1/" /><id>69383</id><summary><![CDATA[Human blood vessels grown in mice]]></summary><issued>2008-07-21T03:18:19+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-21T03:18:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scientists have used human cells to grow new blood vessels in a mouse for the first time, a US journal reports.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Forget the bloody mary, just give me the blood]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38452/1/" /><id>38452</id><summary><![CDATA[Forget the bloody mary, just give me the blood]]></summary><issued>2007-10-16T01:55:00+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-16T01:55:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Hong Kong man who knocked back two vials of blood after a drinking binge has been jailed for two months.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Patient bleeds dark green blood ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/23188/1/" /><id>23188</id><summary><![CDATA[Patient bleeds dark green blood ]]></summary><issued>2007-06-08T10:07:39+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-08T10:07:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A team of Canadian surgeons got a shock when the patient they were operating on began shedding dark greenish-black blood, the Lancet reports. <br/>The man emulated Star Trek's Mr Spock - the Enterprise's science officer who supposedly had green Vulcan blood.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Umbilical cord blood may help build new heart valves]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/81685/1/" /><id>81685</id><summary><![CDATA[Umbilical cord blood may help build new heart valves]]></summary><issued>2008-11-12T08:59:05+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-12T08:59:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In the future, babies with heart defects may receive new heart valves created from cells in the blood from their umbilical cords, saved at birth. These valves could grow and change shape as a child develops, avoiding the need for repeat surgeries to replace outgrown valves from animal or human donor tissue or artificial valves.]]></content></entry></feed>