A Chinese city wants more organs and more blood. Reports say the police are behind the request. A recent case reveals that local authorities in one area are calling on parents to donate blood and their decision could directly affect their kids’ education opportunities.
HARTFORD, Conn.—Connecticut’s attorney general has agreed to a $25.2 million settlement with two men who spent decades in prison for murder, based partly on evidence presented by famed forensic scientist Henry Lee that a judge later found was fabricated. Ralph “Ricky” Birch and Shawn Henning were convicted in the Dec. 1, 1985, slaying of Everett […]
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) announced on Aug. 29 that he has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer. “After a few days of not feeling like myself this past week, I had some blood work done. The results uncovered some irregularities and after undergoing additional tests, I was diagnosed with […]
Bryan Johnson, a 45-year-old tech executive, has quit his attempt to reverse his aging process involving blood plasma infusions from his teenage son. Two months ago, Mr. Johnson recruited his 17-year-old son Talmage and 70-year-old father Richard for a tri-generational blood-swapping treatment. Mr. Johnson, his son, and his father all had one liter of blood […]
A drug manufacturer announced this week it is recalling lots of blood pressure medication Quinapril after a cancer-causing impurity was discovered, according to an announcement carried by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc. said that it is voluntarily recalling four lots of Quinapril tablets due to the presence of nitrosamine, which was observed in recent […]
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrives at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt. It’s his first foreign trip since becoming the prime minister. A British Egyptian activist jailed in Egypt has stopped drinking water. Sunak hopes to raise his case with the Egyptian president. In a world-first, UK scientists have transfused lab-grown blood into people.
A single drop of blood has led to the arrest of a suspect in the unsolved 1989 murders of Catherine and George Peacock in Danby, Vermont, police say. George, 76, and Catherine, 73, were killed in their residence in September 1989, according to the Vermont State Police website. The couple had been stabbed to death […]
Pfizer said on Monday that it is voluntarily recalling some of its blood pressure drug products and two authorized cheaper generic versions of the drug due to elevated levels of a potentially cancer-causing impurity. The pharmaceutical giant said it is recalling six lots of Accuretic (quinapril HCl/hydrochlorothiazide) tablets, one lot of quinapril and hydrochlorothiazide tablets, and four lots of […]
