Read more blood stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/3271/blood.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 11:23:58 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73695/swine-flu-shrinks-nations-blood-supply.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAmerica's blood supply is suffering from the H1N1 pandemic. Blood centers nationwide are seeing a drop in donations as school and businesses cancel blood drives because of absenteeism; they're also having to dump blood already donated as an increasing number of donors report flu-like symptoms after giving. Centers say they...http://www.newser.com/story/73695/swine-flu-shrinks-nations-blood-supply.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Nov 2009 7:50:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/67997/true-blood-kills-with-metaphors-and-uh-sex.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCritics are gushing about HBO's hit True Blood , which manages to marry kinky vampire sex to social commentary, writes Gina Bellafante in the New York Times . The barrier-busting series touches on gay marriage, racial profiling, capitalism run amok, and right-wing religious extremism. In the current season, a crazed Christian cult...http://www.newser.com/story/67997/true-blood-kills-with-metaphors-and-uh-sex.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 28 Aug 2009 8:11:31 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66361/no-blood-found-in-casey-anthonys-trunk.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagProsecutors in the Casey Anthony case released a flurry of documents today, including a three-dimensional animated movie of the area where her daughter’s body was found, crime scene photos, and a 1,100-page report by investigators, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Among the revelations: No blood was found in the trunk...http://www.newser.com/story/66361/no-blood-found-in-casey-anthonys-trunk.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 07 Aug 2009 11:36:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60691/chadian-vampire-dish-gets-blood-boiling-or-frying.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThere’s a vampire resurgence in Chad, and no, it’s not because Twilight has swept the African country. Cost-conscious residents have resurrected a dish slyly known as “vampire”: cooked animal blood, the BBC reports. With global food prices soaring and meat increasingly expensive, traditional vampire is “actually an excellent source of...http://www.newser.com/story/60691/chadian-vampire-dish-gets-blood-boiling-or-frying.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 01 Jun 2009 16:10:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/51055/new-procedure-uses-athletes-own-blood-to-heal-them.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBefore the Super Bowl, Hines Ward and Troy Polamalu got a dose of an exciting new medicine: their own blood. They join at least one Major League pitcher, 20 pro soccer players, and many more casual athletes as early adopters of platelet-rich plasma therapy, a shockingly simple new procedure that...http://www.newser.com/story/51055/new-procedure-uses-athletes-own-blood-to-heal-them.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 17 Feb 2009 11:13:13 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/49620/blood-type-obsession-splits-japan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA widely held belief that blood type determines personality has opened a vein of controversy in Japan, the AP reports. The notion persists despite scientific debunking, with sports teams, matchmakers, and even employers making decisions based on a person's blood type. Some see the craze as sinister and the term...http://www.newser.com/story/49620/blood-type-obsession-splits-japan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 02 Feb 2009 8:43:28 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44633/machete-blood-at-home-of-missing-nyc-womans-date.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPolice have found blood, a machete, and a woman's shoe at the family home of a sex-crime convict suspected in the disappearance of a woman who left a Manhattan nightclub with him, reports the New York Daily News . Suspect Michael Mele, the son of a retired New York City transit...http://www.newser.com/story/44633/machete-blood-at-home-of-missing-nyc-womans-date.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 07 Dec 2008 7:36:52 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/40473/author-offers-creepy-look-at-critters-with-taste-for-blood.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWith Halloween nearly upon us, the author of new book on bloodsucking creatures—vampire bats, bedbugs, leeches, and the like—leads the New York Times on a sanguivore safari. The world's bloodthirsty creatures vary enormously, as Bill Schutt details in Dark Banquet , and some are mere dabblers, but many specialists...http://www.newser.com/story/40473/author-offers-creepy-look-at-critters-with-taste-for-blood.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 21 Oct 2008 20:25:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/25923/despite-danger-fda-sanctioned-artificial-blood-studies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Food and Drug Administration repeatedly approved experiments using artificial blood despite data showing the products to be dangerous, the Washington Post reports. Investigators from the National Institutes of Health found heart attack risk tripled and death increased by 30% for subjects in 16 studies testing five kinds of artificial...http://www.newser.com/story/25923/despite-danger-fda-sanctioned-artificial-blood-studies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 28 Apr 2008 13:50:09 CDT