Published on: 2025-06-03 02:44:37
A critical component of healthcare, blood transfusions play a vital role in saving lives around the globe every day. Maintaining an adequate blood supply, though, is no easy task, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). The demand for O–negative blood — the universal donor type — often exceeds supply and donations have a limited shelf life. Looking to address the issue are a group of Japanese scientists led by Hiromi Sakai at Nara Medical University. They’ve developed a new type
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A critical component of healthcare, blood transfusions play a vital role in saving lives around the globe every day. Maintaining an adequate blood supply, though, is no easy task, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). The demand for O–negative blood — the universal donor type — often exceeds supply and donations have a limited shelf life. Looking to address the issue are a group of Japanese scientists led by Hiromi Sakai at Nara Medical University. They’ve developed a new type
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Image by Getty / Futurism Studies Edible enjoyers, beware. In a new paper published in the journal JAMA Cardiology, researchers from the University of California at San Francisco found that ingesting cannabis-infused goodies can carry similar risks to your heart as smoking the stuff. For years now, heart experts have warned, based on a growing body of evidence, that smoking cannabis is quite bad for the old ticker — but this study appears to be the first that looked into whether edibles had s
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Your blood pressure can be tipped slightly by many factors, so to get an accurate reading you need to control things like posture, how recently you've eaten or consumed coffee and how still you're sitting. For a complete list of tips on how to take your blood pressure at home, refer to the American Heart Association and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . The fanciest blood pressure monitor out there will mean nothing if you don't use it or you can't afford it. Consider whether
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 23:56:34
An otherwise-healthy 52-year-old office worker showed up to a hospital emergency department in Buenos Aires with an unshakable fever he developed the week before. Besides the high temperature, he seemed fine. So, after testing negative for COVID-19, doctors sent him home with supportive care. But the fever didn't go away. In the week that followed, things got worse. He developed nausea, stomach pain, and diarrhea. He also started having trouble breathing. He then went back to the hospital. Thi
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Exercise is for more than just having a beach body this summer. According to the American Heart Association, staying active has a host of benefits for your overall health. This includes lowering the risk of heart disease, lowering high blood pressure, and even lowering your risk of certain cancers or stroke. This means that regularly working out can ensure you live a healthier life. It is recommended that adults get 150 minutes weekly of moderate-intensity aerobic activity. But what specific ex
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Final Destination fans know you can't cheat death. But you can hack watching all the films in the franchise. A Max streaming service subscription will let you access every Final Destination film, except for Final Destination Bloodlines, which started scaring theatergoers last week. It's called Max now, but the service's upcoming name change means it'll probably be HBO Max by the time the Warner Brothers movie Bloodlines inevitably debuts on it. The first Final Destination flick in 14 years, Bl
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Final Destination fans know you can't cheat death. But you can kind of hack watching all the films in the franchise. A Max streaming service subscription will let you access every Final Destination film -- except for Final Destination Bloodlines, which started scaring theatergoers last week. It's called Max now, but the service's upcoming name change means it'll probably be HBO Max by the time the Warner Bros. pic Bloodlines inevitably debuts on it. The first Final Destination flick in 14 year
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Scientists have found alarming amounts of microplastics in virtually everything, from sea turtles to testicles. But discovering a plastic spoon’s worth of these pernicious particles inside human brains may be the most disturbing of all. That recent finding prompted researchers to dig deeper into the health consequences of plastic accumulation in the brain. According to a new review study, published today in the journal Brain Medicine, microplastics may be the missing link in the relationship be
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When you visit your doctor’s office, a blood pressure test is often the first thing you'll face. Blood pressure measures how hard your blood pushes against your artery walls as your heart beats, and it’s one of the most important vital signs. High blood pressure means an increased risk of heart failure, heart attack, or stroke, which are among the leading causes of death in the US, and nearly half of the adults in the country have high blood pressure. Hypertension is one of the easiest, widespr
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After 14 years, the Final Destination series returned to theaters with this weekend’s Bloodlines, and audiences flocked to see some young adults perish. Per Variety, the horror flick has earned $102 million worldwide, a new best for the series. That take is an even split (heh) of $51 million domestically and internationally. For reference, The Final Destination and Final Destination 5 opened to $28.3 and $18.4 million in their respective weekends without inflation. It’s good Bloodlines got a th
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is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. You can’t buy the Huawei Watch 5 in the US, but it has an interesting twist on health tracking. Most smartwatches and fitness trackers measure your metrics from a sensor array that presses into your wrist. The Watch 5 has that, but it also adds a new sensor on the watch’s side that measures EKGs, blood oxygen, and arterial stiffness f
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Wednesday teases the arrival of the extended Addams family. Osgood Perkins’ mysterious new horror film gets a suitably weird and mysterious teaser. Plus, Doctor Who gets ready to do Eurovision in a new clip from this week’s episode. Spoilers get! Touch Me Variety reports Yellow Veil Pictures has acquired the distribution rights to Touch Me, a sci-fi/horror/comedy in which “two co-dependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying
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There’s a moment early on in Final Destination Bloodlines when you realize it’s going to be great. All of the Final Destination movies have a formula and, at the start of this one, the formula seems to be unfolding again. A terrible disaster occurs. That’s always followed by the reveal that it hasn’t happened yet, one character merely had a premonition of it. However, that doesn’t happen here. Something else happens. The formula changes ever so slightly and, as a result, you lock in with a renew
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It's no secret that exercise is good for us, but do know exactly how good? According to the American Heart Association, being more active can lower the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke and several types of cancer. In other words, regular workouts benefit your heart health, promoting a strong, healthy ticker. It is recommended that adults get 150 minutes weekly of moderate-intensity aerobic activity. But what are specific exercises you can do? We reached out to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 06:47:40
In Brief Billy Evans, partner of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, is working on a new startup that seeks to deliver “human health optimization” through blood testing, according to The New York Times. The Times reportedly spoke to two investors pitched on the startup, called Haemanthus, and also viewed some of Haemanthus’ marketing materials. In those materials, the company says it has developed a machine that uses lasers to analyze blood, saliva, and urine samples to detect cancer and infec
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The high-end gaming laptop also comes with up to a Core Ultra 9HX processor and an RTX 5090 GPU. It can even support up to the max of 192 GB of RAM and 8 TB of storage. While it’s quite a thick laptop (and weighs well over 7 pounds), its specs and features are as premium as they get, including a 5-MP webcam, a six-speaker sound system, and just about every port imaginable—including Thunderbolt 5. You can opt for the basic 2D version as well, of course, which will likely bring the price down, rig
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 17:40:01
A starry sky can be stunning—even inside a hospital emergency room. But instead of celestial bodies sparkling in the night, doctors in South Korea were gazing at bright brain lesions punctuating a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. The resulting pattern, called a "starry sky," meant that their 57-year-old patient had a dangerous form of tuberculosis. The doctors report the case in this week's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The man had previously been treated for the infectio
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Nina Raemont/ZDNET Four years after the launch of the Whoop 4.0, Whoop has announced two new health trackers, the Whoop 5.0 and the Whoop MG. While Whoop is mainly considered a health tracker used by pro athletes and fitness enthusiasts, the launch of the new wearables caters to a more general, health-minded customer base willing to pay a high price for cutting-edge health tech. Also: This fitness band features a fitness coach The new health bands track your sleep, activity, and recovery lik
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Nina Raemont/ZDNET Four years after the launch of the Whoop 4.0, Whoop has announced two new health trackers, the Whoop 5.0 and the Whoop MG. While Whoop is mainly considered a health tracker used by pro athletes and fitness enthusiasts, the launch of the new wearables caters to a more general, health-minded customer base willing to pay a high price for cutting-edge health tech. Also: This fitness band features a fitness coach The new health bands track your sleep, activity, and recovery lik
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Nina Raemont/ZDNET Four years after the launch of the Whoop 4.0, Whoop has announced two new health trackers, the Whoop 5.0 and the Whoop MG. While Whoop is mainly considered a health tracker used by pro athletes and fitness enthusiasts, the launch of the new wearables caters to a more general, health-minded customer base willing to pay a high price for cutting-edge health tech. Also: This fitness band features a fitness coach The new health bands track your sleep, activity, and recovery like
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In a recent post about trading stuff for money, I mentioned: Europe had a [blood plasma] shortage of around 38%, which it met by importing plasma from paid donors in the United States, where blood products account for 2% of all exports by value. The internet’s reaction was: “TWO PERCENT?” “TWO PERCENT OF U.S. EXPORTS ARE BLOOD!?” Well, I took that 2% number from a 2024 article in the Economist: Last year American blood-product exports accounted for 1.8% of the country’s total goods exports,
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Shaun the Sheep tackles Halloween monsters in his latest movie. Final Destination: Bloodlines is really excited to set old people on fire. Plus, get a look at Al Pacino and Dan Stevens’ supernatural team-up in The Ritual. Spoilers, away! Clayface According to a new report from The Wrap, screenwriter Hossein Amini (Drive, Obi-Wan Kenobi) has been hired to rewrite Mike Flanagan’s Clayface script at DC Studios. Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Deadline reports a third Shaun the Sheep movie i
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Image by Getty / Futurism Developments It sounds like the origin story of a superhero, but there's nothing fictional about what Tim Friede's accomplished. Since 2001, the 57-year-old Wisconsin man has let himself be bitten by venomous snakes on an incredible 200 occasions, inuring his immune system to the serpents' deadly toxins. Cobras, black mambas, you name it: Friede has weathered them all. That's on top of injecting himself with over 650 doses of increasingly potent amounts of venom. "T
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 21:00:17
While Apple gets its blood pressure monitoring ducks in a row for the potential release of an Apple Watch Series 11 with BPM capabilities in September, Asus just introduced a smartwatch with those functionalities. Asus has unveiled its VivoWatch 6 Aero, the world's first fitness tracker that can measure blood pressure and electrocardiogram (ECG) at the touch of a finger. The watch instantly measures blood pressure and ECG (used to detect atrial fibrillation) through wristband sensors. Also: O
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This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Dried deposit of a 5 μL blood droplet on a glass surface inclined at 35° to the horizontal, showing differential cracking between the advancing (downhill) and receding (uphill) fronts. The arrow indicates the direction of gravitational acceleration (g). Credit: Bibek Kumar, Sangamitro Chatterjee, Amit Agrawal, Rajnee
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Over 10 years have passed since people last escaped death, only to be hunted by it, in the Final Destination franchise. The first five films helped the franchise gain a sizable fan base but the creative team gave the concept a nice long break before bringing it back. And bring it back they did, possibly better than ever, according to the first reactions to Final Destination: Bloodlines. The sixth film in the franchise continues the mythology set forth by the 2000 original and its sequel, but do
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Jason Hiner/ZDNET Blood oxygen monitoring has been gaining traction in the wearables space for a while now. Smartwatches with blood oxygen monitoring functionality can help detect whether there's enough oxygen circulating throughout the body. Apple originally implemented the feature on its Series 9 smartwatch, until it got caught up in -- and lost -- a patent lawsuit to Masimo, which resulted in the disabling of the feature on the smartwatch. Also: The best blood pressure watches you can buy:
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Every year, Apple launches one stand-out health feature, from measuring VO 2 Max on the Series 3 to the ECG sensor on the Series 4, all the way to sleep apnea notifications on the Series 10. “If you zoom out way into the future, and you look back and ask what Apple’s biggest contribution was, it will be in the health area,” Cook said in an interview with WIRED last year. This is a bold thing to say, especially given that the Series 10 and Watch Ultra 2 don’t even have blood oxygen measuring, du
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-04 21:02:22
Every year, Apple launches one standout health feature, from measuring VO2 Max on the Series 3 to the ECG sensor on the Series 4, all the way to sleep apnea notifications on the Series 10. “If you zoom out way into the future, and you look back and ask what Apple’s biggest contribution was, it will be in the health area,” Cook said in an interview with WIRED last year. This is a bold thing to say, especially given that the Series 10 and Watch Ultra 2 don’t even have blood oxygen measuring, due
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