Tag: blood
Noninvasive Prenatal Blood Testing Finds Cancer in Some Pregnant People
How Is This Prenatal Blood Test Detecting Cancer in Pregnant Patients? Researchers are trying to understand how a common prenatal blood test called NIPT is detecting cancer in some pregnant patients. By Rachel Feltman, Laura Hercher, Fonda Mwangi & Alex Sugiura Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. For more than a…
Ted Kotcheff, director of First Blood, Weekend at Bernie’s and Wake in Fright, dies aged 94
Prolific Canadian director also made one of the country’s first internationally successful films, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, starring Richard Dreyfuss Ted Kotcheff, the prolific Canadian director of films including First Blood, Weekend at Bernie’s, Wake in Fright and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, has died aged 94. His daughter Kate Kotcheff told the Canadian…
What to know about this week’s ‘blood worm moon’ total lunar eclipse
By Joe Hernandez Night owls across the U.S. and other parts of the world will be able to see the moon illuminated in a dusty red hue as it passes through the Earth’s shadow later this week during the total lunar eclipse. Depending on your time zone, the celestial transit will occur Thursday evening or…
Liam Payne’s Blood Alcohol Level (BAC) Revealed at Time of Death
More questions are getting answered in the investigation into Liam Payne‘s death. Over four months after he fatally fell from his hotel balcony in Argentina, details of the One Direction member’s have been revealed. And the test results showed that Payne had a blood alcohol level (BAC) of .27 percent at the time of his…
‘A crying need’: Goma hospitals plead for blood donors after M23 assault
Facilities overwhelmed by wounded people and unable to get supplies in or transport patients out Patients with gunshot and shrapnel wounds have crammed into overwhelmed hospitals in Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, many with serious injuries and in need of blood, after M23 rebels backed by Rwanda marched into the city. At…
Far-right group Blood and Honour has assets frozen by government
The neo-Nazi organisation Blood and Honour, which is linked to parts of the skinhead music scene, has become the first extreme right-wing group to have financial sanctions imposed by the UK government. Treasury ministers said they had “reasonable grounds to suspect” Blood and Honour of being involved in “terrorist activities through promoting and encouraging terrorism,…
Gal Gadot Shares She Had a Blood Clot in Her Brain While Pregnant
Gal Gadot is opening up about discovering she had a blood clot in her brain during her fourth pregnancy: “In one moment, my family and I were faced with how fragile life can be.” Gal Gadot is reflecting on a harrowing moment she experienced during her pregnancy journey. The Wonder Woman star, who welcomed her…