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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Karnataka launches its first rare blood donor programme

To support the blood requirements of patients with rare blood groups, Rotary Bangalore TTK Blood Centre’s Bangalore Medical Services Trust, in association with the Karnataka State Blood Transfusion Council, on Tuesday launched a ‘Rare Blood Donor’ programme. Under the programme, BMST is forming a ‘Rare Blood Donor’ registry, a database of voluntary donors of rare blood groups and a repository …

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6 months, 1 week ago

World Blood Donor Day 2024: Rare Blood Types That Should Donate Blood

News 18

Blood donation is an important part in global healthcare, with over 100 million units contributed annually. The term “blood group” refers to a certain blood group system which contains red blood cell antigens under the control of serial allelic genes or genes which are very closely linked via the chromosome. According to the International Society of Blood Transfusion, red blood …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

AstraZeneca’s submission in U.K. court nothing new, say doctors over Covishield’s potential to cause blood clots

The Hindu

Following pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca’s admission in U.K. court documents that its vaccine against COVID-19 has the potential to cause Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome, a rare side effect associated with blood clotting, doctors in India said this is not new information and that they are “well aware of the warning which has been available in India as an insert with the …

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9 months ago

Celebrity Big Brother SPOILER: Louis Walsh and Zeze Millz clash as they are voted the 'most evil housemates'

Daily Mail

Tensions are rising on Celebrity Big Brother as Louis Walsh and Zeze Millz clash heads during the latest shopping task on Sunday evening. Tensions are rising on Celebrity Big Brother as Louis Walsh and Zeze Millz clash heads during the latest shopping task on Sunday evening The house will transform into the Wicked Big Brother's kingdom and the former X …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Children’s hospital organises meet with bone marrow donors and recipients

The Hindu

On the occasion of Children’s Day, the Kanchi Kamakoti CHILDS Trust Hospital organised a bone marrow transplanted children’s meet in the city on Tuesday. The bone marrow transplant unit of the hospital held the meet with donors and recipients of the transplant. Pointing out that the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister’s Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme and the Telangana Arogya Shree Comprehensive …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Nationwide search for blood donors with rare blood type to save South Australian mother

ABC

An urgent nationwide search is underway for blood donors with a rare blood type to save an Adelaide mother waiting for a match to undergo major surgery. Key points: A sick mother with a rare blood type is urgently seeking donations before heart surgery Calls for blood donors have been shared far and wide But more donors are being urged …

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1 year, 5 months ago

How comedian Ryan Sickler battled a rare disorder and laughed in the face of death

LA Times

Baltimore native Ryan Sickler is a comic’s comic. “It was first time I was ever headlining the Brea Improv for a weekend and I’m in the shower getting ready and suddenly I fall to my knees,” Sickler said. “When tragedy happens in our lives, I’ve always dealt with it with laughter,” says Ryan Sickler. “After it’s fixed, they made me …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Teen stunned after ‘pulled muscle’ turns out to be rare blood cancer

The Independent

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2 years, 1 month ago

Study confirms AstraZeneca jab’s higher risk of very rare clot

The Hindu

AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine has been linked to a 30% higher risk of getting a very rare blood clotting condition compared to the Pfizer jab, a large international study said Thursday. Several countries have already altered their advice after previous research indicated that -- in a tiny number of cases -- thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome can be a possible side effect …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Dried blood and roses: Jury gets rare look at Parkland scene

Associated Press

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Roses brought to honor love on that Valentine’s Day in 2018 lay withered, their dried and cracked petals scattered across classroom floors still smeared with the blood of victims gunned down by a former student more than four years ago. Bullet holes pocked walls, and shards of glass from windows shattered by gunfire crunched underfoot at …

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3 years, 7 months ago

J&J vaccine: Risk of dying from Covid-19 40 times the risk of rare blood clot after receiving vaccine

CNN

CNN — The risk of dying from Covid-19 is 40 times the risk of developing a rare blood clotting condition after getting the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, a CNN analysis shows. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it has received reports of 28 people who have developed a rare blood clotting syndrome out of 8.7 million …

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3 years, 8 months ago

EU regulator finds possible link between Johnson & Johnson vaccine and blood clots, but says benefits outweigh risks

CNN

London CNN — Europe’s medicines regulator said it has found a possible link between the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine and rare blood clots, but emphasized that the overall benefits of getting the shot outweigh the risks. The European Medicines Agency concluded that “a warning about unusual blood clots with low blood platelets should be added to the product information” …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Covid-19 vaccines and rare blood clots: Are women at greater risk?

Live Mint

Scientists are trying to understand why women appear to be more vulnerable than men to a potentially deadly blood-clotting condition reported among a tiny number of recipients of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine. In a letter published Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine, three J&J scientists said there wasn’t enough evidence to say that the company’s vaccine caused …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Rare blood clotting risk more for COVID-19 than for vaccines: Oxford study

India Today

The risk of rare blood clotting following the Covid-19 infection is around 100 times greater than normal, several times higher than it is post-vaccination or following influenza, according to a new University of Oxford study published on Thursday. Yet, one key question remained unknown: ‘What is the risk of CVT following a diagnosis of COVID-19?’,” said Paul Harrison, one of …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Vaccination appointments now open to all 16 and older in California

LA Times

Ruth Hancock receives a vaccination in Chinatown on Monday from Jason Liang, a certified emergency medical technician and a supervisor at the nonprofit Chinatown Service Center. California state epidemiologist Dr. Erica Pan said less than 4% of California’s vaccine allocation from the federal government this week — 67,600 out of roughly 2 million doses — is from Johnson & Johnson. …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Covid-19: UK to offer Oxford/AstraZeneca alternative to under-30s

India Today

The UK’s medicines regulator on Wednesday said that under-30s in the country will be offered an alternative to the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine due to “evolving evidence” linking it to rare blood clots, even as the European Medicines Agency concluded a "possible link" between the vaccine and rare clotting. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said that routine monitoring has …

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Top EU drug official says link exists between AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clots

3 years, 8 months ago

EU says ‘no evidence’ to restrict use of AstraZeneca vaccine

Associated Press

BERLIN — The head of the European Medicines Agency said Wednesday that there is “no evidence” that would support restricting the use of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine in any population, as Germany has now done amid concerns over rare blood clots in people who got the shot. Cooke said the EMA will include the Germany cases in its review “and they …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Australian experts back AstraZeneca vaccine, despite European regulator not ruling out link to rare blood clots

ABC

Australian experts have voiced their support for the continued nationwide rollout of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, despite the European medicines regulator concluding there is a "possible link" between the jab and a number of rare blood clots. Dr Hemmatzadeh said there was no "scientific connection" between the risk of rare blood clots and younger women, although more research was needed. Its …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Netherlands to resume use of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine after blood clod study

NL Times

The Netherlands will lift its suspension on the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 after the European Medicines Agency determined the vaccine was unlikely to be the cause of specific cases of severe blood clotting which occurred in 25 people shortly after they were vaccinated. Use of the vaccine will begin “over the course of the next week,” said Health Minister Hugo …

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Karnataka launches its first rare blood donor programme

World Blood Donor Day 2024: Rare Blood Types That Should Donate Blood

AstraZeneca’s submission in U.K. court nothing new, say doctors over Covishield’s potential to cause blood clots

Celebrity Big Brother SPOILER: Louis Walsh and Zeze Millz clash as they are voted the 'most evil housemates'

Children’s hospital organises meet with bone marrow donors and recipients

Nationwide search for blood donors with rare blood type to save South Australian mother

How comedian Ryan Sickler battled a rare disorder and laughed in the face of death

Teen stunned after ‘pulled muscle’ turns out to be rare blood cancer

Study confirms AstraZeneca jab’s higher risk of very rare clot

Dried blood and roses: Jury gets rare look at Parkland scene

J&J vaccine: Risk of dying from Covid-19 40 times the risk of rare blood clot after receiving vaccine

EU regulator finds possible link between Johnson & Johnson vaccine and blood clots, but says benefits outweigh risks

Covid-19 vaccines and rare blood clots: Are women at greater risk?

Rare blood clotting risk more for COVID-19 than for vaccines: Oxford study

Vaccination appointments now open to all 16 and older in California

Covid-19: UK to offer Oxford/AstraZeneca alternative to under-30s

Top EU drug official says link exists between AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clots

EU says ‘no evidence’ to restrict use of AstraZeneca vaccine

Australian experts back AstraZeneca vaccine, despite European regulator not ruling out link to rare blood clots

Netherlands to resume use of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine after blood clod study