Blood Donation
Donating blood is a simple and relatively painless procedure that can help save lives.
According to the American Association of Blood Banks, eight million volunteer donors donate the 14...
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Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade my audience to go out and give blood
Introduction:
I. Imagine your father has just suffered a heart attack and must undergo open-heart surgery in order to rep...
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Donated blood extracts
Thee need for blood is great. On a daily average, there is 38 000 units of red blood cells needed. The needs vary great ranging from trauma victims, surgery assistance, transfu...
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The U.N. health agency announced a drive Thursday to give pregnant women increased access to safe blood, warning that about 125,000 mothers bleed to death during childbirth each year.The World Heal...
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Gangs operating in southern China are abusing a blood donor
payment scheme by organizing blood donations by poor migrant workers,
a newspaper report released Friday claims.
Gang leaders ar...
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The number of blood donors in Japan who tested positive for HIV
came to 102 in 2007, surpassing 100 for the first time since the HIV
antibody test for blood donors began in 1986, according to...
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HONG KONG, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Scientists in Hong Kong and
China are working on an AIDS vaccine to protect against three
variants of HIV sweeping across south and west China, Hong Kong
and Taiwan. ...
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Explosions tore through two buses traveling on a highway Tuesday near a mountain town northeast of Beirut, and dozens of people were either killed or wounded, the country's state-run news agency sa...
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Peruvian officials have closed the country's 240 blood banks after at least four people were infected with HIV from blood transfusions in a public hospital.Health Minister Carlos Vallejos said Thur...
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The cumulative total of blood donors in Japan fell below the 5
million mark for the first time in 29 years in 2006 to hit about
4,988,000, official figures showed Tuesday.
The data, releas...
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A group of 55 greyhounds rescued after a life of racing are helping to save more canine lives with the donation of their blood.The dogs, most owned by professors, technicians and students at the Oh...
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A group of 55 greyhounds rescued after a life of racing are helping to save more canine lives with the donation of their blood.The dogs, most owned by professors, technicians and students at the Oh...
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A suspected suicide attacker exploded a bomb near a Shiite Muslim mosque in this northwestern Pakistani city late Saturday, killing at least 11 people, including the city police chief, and wounding...
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