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Eight-year-old Julia Balobeck needs to prick her fingers so many times each day that the tips of her digits have started to turn numb and black. Even at her age, she understands that the needle sticks are crucial to keep track of her blood sugar levels and manage her Type 1 diabetes, but she’d really like someone to find a better way.
Medco Health Solutions Inc. said Tuesday it will compare the blood thinner Plavix, the world's second-best selling drug, with the newer Effient.
A former track athlete at Central Connecticut State University has sued the school, saying a coach forced him to drink blood as a kind of "tribal ritual."
When police officer Darryll Dowell is on patrol in the southwestern Idaho city of Nampa, he'll pull up at a stoplight and usually start casing the vehicle. Nowadays, his eyes will also focus on the driver's arms, as he tries to search for a plump, bouncy vein.
Twinkle, a 14-year-old girl from the Indian city of Lucknow, apparently sheds blood instead of tears. Dr. George Buchanan, who examined her personally, said: “I think this is something that has been purposely brought on.”
A federal jury has acquitted a Nebraska crime-scene investigator accused of falsifying records in a 2006 double-murder case and depriving two men initially charged in the slayings of their rights.
A New York man is donating his 320th pint of blood this week, making him one of two people in the U.S. who has given 40 gallons.
Watching someone bounce off of a giant red rubber ball and then flip dramatically backwards through the air, bouncing off another red ball before splashing into water: that is not an example of complicated television.
As Victor Fabry napped in his hospital bed, a quiet symphony filled his room. The steady pulse of a cardiac monitor marked the progress of his mending heart. Over that beat, the swaying strains of a Brazilian guitarist pumped nearly nonstop from a CD player on the shelf.
A Nebraska man serving a life sentence for killing his 4-year-old son wants his conviction thrown out and is citing evidence-tampering charges against a crime scene investigator among his arguments.
A Nebraska crime scene investigator faces another lawsuit by a man who was wrongfully charged in a 2006 double-murder case.
The commander of the Douglas County crime scene investigations unit is facing federal and state charges over accusations that he planted evidence in the car of two wrongly accused suspects in a Nebraska couple's murder.
Consumers buying iPods, Blackberries and cell phones should use their buying power to pressure electronics manufacturers to stop buying the minerals fueling one of Africa's deadliest wars, activists said Wednesday.
A blood oath isn't good enough for a California appeals court.
Beth Leslie had gotten occasional migraines for years. She thought of them as a painful imposition, nothing more.
The first extensive report into Britain's tainted blood scandal stopped short Monday of blaming individual doctors or companies for what is widely viewed as the National Health Service's worst treatment disaster.
One in four — or almost 80 million — Americans have some form of heart disease. It is the No. 1 killer disease in America, and up to half of those deaths could be prevented by changes in lifestyle, with diet leading the troops.
In Japan, "What's your type?" is much more than small talk; it can be a paramount question in everything from matchmaking to getting a job.
You say you don’t understand the current resurgence of interest in vampires? Don’t worry—most of the characters (the mortal ones, anyway) on Alan Ball’s HBO hit series “True Blood” would probably sympathize. Ever since “mainstreaming” vampires came out of the coffin and took up residence in the tiny fictional town of Bon Temps, La., the locals there have been struggling to figure out the fascination with vampires, too, and, like you, they kind of resent the disruption. Moreover, they don’t know what it means now that this influx of newcomers has upset the status quo seemingly overnight, and now threatens to make them a minority in their own hometown.
Swiss police can be excused for fearing the worst. Acting on emergency calls Monday night, they hurried to a rural road in northern Switzerland where horrified motorists reported a long trail of blood — what they believed was evidence of a brutal crime.
The conflict in eastern Congo is being fueled and funded by a tussle for mineral resources that end up in cell phones, laptops and other electronics — deepening the stakes in a war that sprung out of festering hatreds from the Rwandan genocide.
As fictional lovers go, bubbly blond Sookie Stackhouse and tall, pale Bill Compton are as massively mismatched as they come. After all, Sookie (Anna Paquin) is exuberantly human and Bill (Stephen Moyer) is, well, totally undead in HBO's flamboyant new vampire saga, "True Blood."
Robert Mackie trembles with rage when he describes how he and his wife were kept in the dark about his HIV infection — and how doctors published his medical data in journals years before they gave him the devastating news.
Scientists say they've found an efficient way to make red blood cells from human embryonic stem cells, a possible step toward making transfusion supplies in the laboratory. The promise of a virtually limitless supply is tantalizing because of blood donor shortages and disappointments in creating blood substitutes.
Voshte Gustafson was just three months pregnant when she got the first brochure in the mail urging her to spend $2,000 to collect her newborn’s umbilical cord blood as a hedge against future illness.
Digital Tattoo Interface Turns Your Skin Into A DisplayThere are implants which are purely aesthetic, and then there s the Digital Tattoo Interface concept. It s a blood-powered electronic interface which is embedded under skin to mimic a tattoo, display videos, or act as a phone or computer.
Meet Suzie Park, a real life VampireAS the clock strikes midnight Lady V raises a goblet to her lips and takes several hearty gulps. Finally her thirst is quenched - thanks to the warm human BLOOD she has just downed.
Homeless man bites sex accused's penisA Taiwan man had to seek medical treatment after his genitals were bitten while forcing a homeless man to perform oral sex, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
How to Have Sex Like a Virgin for Only 30 Bucks Purity has its price: it's $29.90. At least that's how much it costs to obtain the "artificial virginity hymen," a plastic baggie filled with mysterious red crap meant to resemble the chaste secretions of a recently deflowered virgin.
Blood of my blood you are not, but into my life you came. You continued my growth & cultivation, yet never altered my name. I battled you each step of every day but you loved me and gave me time. To grow up and understand that, life does not always have sanity nor rhyme. …
Police: Wis. woman strips to avoid arrestSHEBOYGAN, Wis. – Police say a Wisconsin woman stripped in front of her children in an attempt to avoid arrest for shoplifting, then scuffled with officers and exposed herself through a squad car window.
Gadget to help women feign virginity angers many in Egypt -- latimes.comEgypt threatens women with death for using artificial virginity hymen kit.
Egypt anger over virginity fakingA leading Egyptian scholar has demanded that people caught importing a female virginity-faking device into the country should face the death penalty.
October. I can't believe it's October. Again. I've been trying to ignore its arrival. Not looking ahead on the calendar because… Well, because if I look it'll be October and I'm never ready.
Police Train To Forcibly Draw Blood From Drunk Driving Suspects:Nightmarish and chilling program will be expanded nationwideThe Federal program's aim is to determine if blood draws by cops can be an effective tool against drunk drivers and aid in their prosecution. They will draw blood of any suspected drunk driver who refuses a breath test.
Doctor probes mystery of girl who cries bloodTwinkle, a 14-year-old girl from the Indian city of Lucknow, apparently sheds blood instead of tears. Dr. George Buchanan, who examined her personally, said: "I think this is something that has been purposely brought on."
Doctor probes mystery of girl who cries bloodTwinkle, a 14-year-old girl from the Indian city of Lucknow, apparently sheds blood instead of tears. Dr. George Buchanan, who examined her personally, said: "I think this is something that has been purposely brought on."
Frozen blood head on show in LondonA head made from frozen blood - the latest in a series of self-portraits by artist Marc Quinn - has been unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Wars, victims, blood. It is not about race. It is about human loss. I mean, Tsunamis, car accidents, malaria are not enough ? I'm really sorry to see Afghanistan as the weakpoint stategy of Obama, the Clinton's, and the free world in general.
Tennessee Teen Baffles Doctors Crying Tears of BloodA Tennessee teen has baffled doctors by regularly shedding tears of blood. Calvino Inman suffers bloody tears seeping from his eyes for up to an hour a day.
Teen who cries blood gets help from expertsCalvino Inman had just stepped out of the shower one evening in May when a glimpse of his reflection in the mirror caused him to panic. "I looked up and saw myself, and I thought I was going to die," says the 15-year-old from Rockwood, Tennessee.
New Hope for Rockwood, Tennessee Teen Crying Tears of Blood [Includes link to video and pictures, not pleasant to see.]A teenager who cries tears of blood may be able to get help from a doctor at Hamilton Eye Institute in Memphis who learned of his condition. The article includes a link to a video and pictures of the boy that are not pleasant to look at.
Doctors unable to diagnose teen who cries blood An east Tennessee teen and his family is dealing with a medical mystery. Without warning, 15-year-old Calvino Inman of Rockwood, about 50 miles west of Knoxville, cries blood and now, his family is making a desperate plea for help.
Curious call about removing blood from carpet draws attentionSome questions just don't have good answers. "Does this dress make me look fat?," for one. "Yeah, whaddya gonna do about it?," for another.
The pictures are chilling: A man stands outside of a Town Hall meeting, dressed well and not appearing to be unbalanced, but across his back is an AR-15 rifle, a civilian version of the M4 assault rifle used by our military.
Coach Dean Richards banned over fake blood ruseLEADING English rugby union coach Dean Richards has been banned from all coaching for three years in the final allout from the infamous fake blood case. A European Rugby Cup disciplinary committee in Glasgow banned frmer Harlequins director of rugby Richards after a long investi …
What did Jefferson tell us to do if an opposing faction decides to "refresh the tree of liberty" with blood?Jefferson told the rest of the citizenry what to do in the face of any such violent watering. Jefferson's advice to the peaceful is much more arduous than striking out in ignorant violence, but we cannot shrink from his instructions.
Chinese lesbians petition for right to donate bloodChinese lesbians are signing onto an online petition asking for the right to donate blood, which is denied them by a society worried about AIDS, state media said Tuesday.
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