B L O O D

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  some odds and ends on transfusions

http://www.aabb.org/tm/donation/Pages/bdprocess.aspx


Before You Donate
To donate blood, find a blood bank near you using AABB's blood bank locator. Then, call the blood bank to make an appointment. When making the appointment, ask the following questions:

What are your general donor requirements? (Most places require you to weigh a minimum of 110 pounds, be at least 16 years old and be generally healthy).

What kind of identification is required? (First-time donors are usually asked to present two forms of identification—the type of identification needed varies by facility).
If you have any particular health concerns or have traveled outside of the country, it's also a good idea to inform the blood bank at the time you are making your appointment.

When You Arrive at the Blood Donation Center
When you sign in, you will be asked to complete a donor registration form, which includes your name, address, phone number, and various other types of demographic information.
You will also be asked to show your donor card or the type of identification required by the particular blood bank you visit.

Pre-Donation Screening
During pre-donation screening, a blood bank employee will ask you some questions about your health, lifestyle, and disease risk factors. All of this information is confidential.
Next, an employee will perform a short health exam, taking your pulse, temperature and blood pressure.

A drop of blood from your finger will also be tested to ensure that your blood iron level is sufficient for you to donate. All medical equipment used for this test, as well as during the donation process, is sterile, used only once and then disposed.

Blood Donation
Once the pre-donation screening is finished, you will proceed to a donor bed where your arm will be cleaned with an antiseptic, and a professional will use a blood donation kit to draw blood from a vein in your arm. If you are allergic to iodine, be sure to tell the phlebotomist at this point.
During the donation process, you will donate one unit of blood; this takes about six to ten minutes.

Post-Donation
Following your donation, you will receive refreshments in the canteen area, where you can stay until you feel strong enough to leave.
After donating, it is recommended that you increase your fluid intake for the next 24 to 48 hours; avoid strenuous physical exertion, heavy lifting or pulling with the donation arm for about five hours; and eat well balanced meals for the next 24 hours. After donating, smoking and alcohol consumption is not recommended.

Although donors seldom experience discomfort after donating, if you feel light-headed, lie down until the feeling passes. If some bleeding occurs after removal of the bandage, apply pressure to the site and raise your arm for three to five minutes. If bruising or bleeding appears under the skin, apply a cold pack periodically to the bruised area during the first 24 hours, then warm, moist heat intermittently.

If you have any questions concerning your donation or experience any unexpected problems, please call the center where you donated blood.

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People also ask
How long do you have to wait to give blood?
You must wait at least eight weeks (56 days) between donations of whole blood and 16 weeks (112 days) between double red cell donations. Platelet apheresis donors may give every 7 days up to 24 times per year. Regulations are different for those giving blood for themselves (autologous donors).
Blood Donation Frequently Asked Questions | American Red Cross
m.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood/donation-faqs
Search for: How long do you have to wait to give blood?
Can you donate blood if you have tattoos?

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ok this one is scary.. a person cutting your hair has to have a health license but in some states  anyone can draw pictures on you with  ink from who knows where and using needles  YIKES

http://www.redcrossblood.org/news/indianaohio/special-blood-drive-highlights-donor-eligibility-changes-affecting-people-new-tatto


Regulations on blood donation and tattoos are related to concerns about the potential spread of hepatitis. In the past, a person who received a tattoo had to wait 12 months before being eligible to donate blood. More recently however, many states, including Indiana, began regulating tattoo establishments by requiring them to be licensed. Today, someone receiving a tattoo could still be eligible to donate blood if the tattoo was applied in a state that regulates tattoo facilities. Currently, the only states that do not regulate tattoo facilities are: Georgia, Idaho, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, Wyoming and the District of Columbia.


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http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/blood-transfusion/basics/definition/prc-20021256
Definition
By Mayo Clinic Staff
A blood transfusion is a routine medical procedure that can be lifesaving. During a blood transfusion, donated blood is added to your own blood. A blood transfusion may also be done to supplement various components of your blood with donated blood products. In some cases, a blood transfusion is done with blood that you've donated ahead of time before you undergo elective surgery.

During a typical blood transfusion, certain parts of blood are delivered through an intravenous (IV) line that's placed in one of the veins in your arm. A blood transfusion usually takes one to four hours, though in an emergency it can be done much faster.

A blood transfusion boosts blood levels that are low, either because your body isn't making enough or you've lost blood owing to surgery, injury or disease.

Why it's done
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Advantages/disadvantages of direct blood transfusion - Absolute Write
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Dec 10, 2010 - He's going to get a transfusion from a crew mate, but I'm not sure if they should be hooked up directly (the blood going straight from one person

[ArMaP]

My sister once asked and was told she couldn't donate blood because she had hydrocephalus and to operate the doctors had to cut the membranes that protect the brain.

[SerpUkhovian]

Do the "end users" know who donated the blood?

Usually the patients receiving the blood have no idea where the blood came from.  The blood donation facilities I have been using (Red Cross and Blood One) have a way to designate where the blood is to be used.  For example the blood can go to a relative who is having an operation.

[space otter]

another interesting tidbit of info on rare types

http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/6-things-you-didnt-know-about-your-blood-type/ss-BBth8GW

Medical Daily
Ed Cara
1 day ago

6 Things You Didn't Know About Your Blood Type

THE RAREST OF THEM ALL
For something so intrinsically a part of us, it seems there's plenty we're in the dark about when it comes to our blood type. Indeed, according to various surveys, anywhere from 35 to 50 percent of people in the Western world just plain don't know what their type even is.

That's why we here at Medical Daily have decided to pull back the curtain and lay down some interesting factoids about blood types and their continuing, if sometimes overexaggerated, importance to our lasting health.

Click through the slideshow to check them out.

You may have heard that the AB type is the rarest around, and that's true when only looking at the eight different combinations of A, B, O, and D+ or D-. The percentages shift a bit depending on the ethnic group you're looking at, but according to the Stanford School of Medicine, 0.6 percent of the general population have the AB- type.

As mentioned before, though, there are lots of antigens our blood cells are capable of sporting. And while we largely share many common combinations, there are people who possess extremely rare ones.
Case in point, a man only identified as Thomas who was profiled by Mosaic in 2014.
http://mosaicscience.com/story/man-golden-blood
His blood is special not for the antigens he possesses, but the ones he doesn't — namely all the antigens in the Rhesus group. That fact makes him one of 40 known people to have a Rh null type in the world, and one of six known donors.

But while his blood allows him to be an universal donor for anyone else with a rare RH type, it also means that, should he ever need donated blood, he would only be able to use Rh null blood, either from his own stored supply or from the other five members of his exclusive club.


AN INCOMPATIBILITY PROBLEM
Speaking of the RH type, the compatibility problem outlined in the first slide is more complicated when it comes to antigens.

Unlike the ABO group, people who are negative for the D or other RH antigens aren't automatically unable to tolerate blood containing them. It's only after exposure to RH+ blood that their body begins producing antibodies to the antigens, and that doesn't always happen. That means a person with RH- blood could theoretically receive RH+ blood without having it rejected by their body, at least the first time around. Because of how potentially dangerous that scenario could be, though, that's almost never considered an option.

A much more common situation is when a RH- mother gives birth to a child with RH+ blood. If it's the first time, there's no trouble at all, but if it's the second time, or the mother had somehow received donated RH+ blood before, there's a chance the mother has developed antibodies that can pass through the placenta and attack the fetus' blood cells, resulting in a condition called hemolytic disease of the newborn. This can also happen with babies who are incompatible with their mother's ABO type, but it's usually very mild and much rarer.

Thankfully, RH incompatibility can usually be prevented with drugs or unique antibodies that knock out the mother's ability to ever form RH antibodies in the first place.

HE PERSONALITY MYTH
At the beginning of this piece I mentioned that a surprisingly good number of people are unaware of their blood type. But that's really only true in Europe and the United States. In Japan, blood type is as crucial to your identity as your hair color or ability to hum show tunes gracefully.

The existence of the ABO blood group was first uncovered at the turn of the 20th century. Soon after, in 1927, a Tokyo professor named Takeji Furukawa published a paper that speculated that our blood types could also predict our personality traits. Though it soon faded from the public view, it was revived with much greater fanfare by author and journalist Masahiko Nomi in the 1970s. And to this day, Japanese celebs and citizens alike turn to their blood types in order to gain insight into their innermost workings and to figure out whether that special guy or gal is truly compatible with them.

Though isolated support for such a link pops up now and then — even recently — the overwhelming majority of research places it firmly in the junk bin of science, right next to using the shape of our heads to figure out whether we're destined to be criminals.


THE DIET MYTH
Lest you mock Japan for their seemingly bizarre fascination, the crank science surrounding blood types isn't isolated to one corner of the world.

In 1996, an American author and naturopath by the name of Peter J. D'Adamo released the book Eat Right 4 Your Type. That started off an impressive — if poorly spelled — franchise of guides on how to tie every single health decision you make to your blood type. Taking things one step further, he even released a diet book catered to a person's "genotype," a particularly catchy and completely meaningless buzzword that apparently describes our genetic destiny.

In the original book and his revisions since, D'Adamo advocates for a personalized diet depending on a person's blood type, such that someone with type O blood should only eat a high-protein diet obtained mostly from meat, fish, and poultry, while someone with type A should do the opposite and avoid all meat.

Suffice to say, there's even less science backing up any of D'Adamo's claims than there is with the personality link, particularly when it comes to improving our health or preventing disease. Not that you would know that from listening to respected household names like Dr. Memhet Oz, mind you.

SOME HEALTH RISKS INCLUDED

Snark aside, it isn't fair to say that our blood type is completely meaningless to our overall health. Research has consistently shown that our ABO type can be a risk factor for certain diseases.

For reasons we're still not sure of, people who don't have type O blood generally have higher levels of the proteins responsible for controlling our bleeding, called clotting factors. While these proteins help us heal more quickly from a skinned knee, they also place us at greater risk of getting unnecessary clots in unwanted places, such as the deep veins of our legs.

Sometimes the clots can even break off and travel elsewhere, a particularly dangerous condition called venous thromboembolism. And sure enough, people without type O blood are about twice as likely to develop it.

Other recent research has found a similar connection between blood types other than type O and cardiovascular disease as well as cancer. According to a 2015 review, nearly 6 percent of total deaths, including 9 percent of deaths caused by cardiovascular disease, could be chalked up to simply not having type O blood.

Though there's a lot of science left to be done in untangling the relationship between blood type and health, it's apparent that we haven't come close to understanding everything there is to know about the very essence of life.


had some trouble getting this here lots of embeds  in the article for those interested

[A51Watcher]

The Rh-Negative Registry - Theory: The Basque History of the World

... Basques have the highest concentration of type O in the world-more than 50 percent of the population-with an even higher percentage in remote areas where the language is best preserved, such as Soule. Most of the rest are type A.

Type B is extremely rare among Basques. With the finding that Irish, Scots, Corsicans, and Cretans also have an unusually high incidence of type O, speculation ran wild that these peoples were somehow related to Basques.

But then, in 1937, came the discovery of the rhesus factor, more commonly known as Rh positive or Rh negative. Basques were found to have the highest incidence of Rh negative blood of any people in the world, significantly higher than the rest of Europe, even significantly higher than neighboring regions of France and Spain.

Cro-Magnon theorists point out that other places known to have been occupied by Cro-Magnon man, such as the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and the Canary Islands, also have been found to have a high incidence of Rh negative....

http://www.rhnegativeregistry.com/the-basque-history-of-the-world-rh-negative-origin.html



RH NEGATIVE: THE UNTRACEABLE BLOOD



RH NEGATIVE BLOOD + ABDUCTED BY ALIENS

...In the continued search for the origin of mankind and our first ancestors, incomplete data leave gaps in the path tracing our genetic lineage back through history.

According to the evolutionists, our ancestry can be traced back through mutations in our DNA caused by our environmental surroundings and adaptation to changes for survival – a gradual improvement over millions of years from ape to Homo sapiens.

According to creationists, some powerful, all-knowing, outside being or force invented us instantaneously and directed our lives – we are as we were at inception, from the first human being up till now.

But what if the answer is a combination of both?...

https://www.gaia.com/article/rh-negative-blood-abducted-aliens

[A51Watcher]

[space otter]

watching this now and going.. wow look at her eyes when she faces the camera

[Irene]

They're contacts. You can get pretty much any kind of weird lens you want.

See Charles Dance in "Last Action Hero".

[biggles]

The Rh-Negative Registry - Theory: The Basque History of the World

... Basques have the highest concentration of type O in the world-more than 50 percent of the population-with an even higher percentage in remote areas where the language is best preserved, such as Soule. Most of the rest are type A.

Type B is extremely rare among Basques. With the finding that Irish, Scots, Corsicans, and Cretans also have an unusually high incidence of type O, speculation ran wild that these peoples were somehow related to Basques.

But then, in 1937, came the discovery of the rhesus factor, more commonly known as Rh positive or Rh negative. Basques were found to have the highest incidence of Rh negative blood of any people in the world, significantly higher than the rest of Europe, even significantly higher than neighboring regions of France and Spain.

Cro-Magnon theorists point out that other places known to have been occupied by Cro-Magnon man, such as the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and the Canary Islands, also have been found to have a high incidence of Rh negative....

http://www.rhnegativeregistry.com/the-basque-history-of-the-world-rh-negative-origin.html



RH NEGATIVE: THE UNTRACEABLE BLOOD



RH NEGATIVE BLOOD + ABDUCTED BY ALIENS

...In the continued search for the origin of mankind and our first ancestors, incomplete data leave gaps in the path tracing our genetic lineage back through history.

According to the evolutionists, our ancestry can be traced back through mutations in our DNA caused by our environmental surroundings and adaptation to changes for survival – a gradual improvement over millions of years from ape to Homo sapiens.

According to creationists, some powerful, all-knowing, outside being or force invented us instantaneously and directed our lives – we are as we were at inception, from the first human being up till now.

But what if the answer is a combination of both?...

https://www.gaia.com/article/rh-negative-blood-abducted-aliens

I'm A negative, so are my sons, we get it from my father's line who is Scottish.  He was born and bred in Leith, Scotland.  Met and married mum down here.

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Vatican Accepts Payment in Blood to Access Museums

by THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.15 Apr 2017
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/04/15/vatican-accepts-payment-blood-access-museums/

Along with Visa, Mastercard, and cash, visitors wishing to access the Vatican Museums now have the option of paying in blood.
"Without blood, there is no life. Without art, life would be empty and sad," said Barbara Jatta, director of the Vatican Museums.

The Museums recently announced that blood donors will receive a voucher toward an entry ticket to the Vatican Museums. The new blood "payment plan," with the slogan "Give blood and follow your artistic inclination," is the product of a partnership between Rome's Gemelli University Hospital and the blood donor group "Francesco Olgiati," together with the Vatican Museums.

Yet blood donors should not think they will get into the Museums on the cheap. While an adult ticket to the Vatican Museums currently costs 16 euros, donors will receive a voucher for four euros each time they give blood. This means that donors must give blood four times if they wish to access the Museums for free.

Moreover, since a donor typically gives a pint of blood per session, it will cost blood-givers nearly two liters of blood—34 percent of the body's total blood supply—to gaze upon the Laocoon, the Apollo Belvedere, or Michelangelo's Last Judgment for free.

Even with the use of just one four-euro voucher, however, visitors may pay the remainder of their ticket fee without waiting in line—which is itself a huge benefit when queues can literally wrap around the block.

Gemelli University Hospital reportedly coordinates the distribution of more than 17,000 units of blood and blood components each year, which are used for treating patients with a variety of conditions.

Projects like these allow the Vatican Museums to be "a living cultural institution, an integral part of the social fabric," Jatta said, "just as Pope Francis has hoped."

"We hope that many will take advantage of this opportunity: it benefits both themselves and others," Jatta said of the promotional program that lasts through December 31, 2017.

Follow Thomas D. Williams on Twitter

[biggles]

Knowing the Vatican as I do I am wondering what they use that blood for Otter,
do they get it blood typed or just take anything and give to Who.  Shivers....

[zorgon]

Ancestry.com is owned and operated by the Mormon Church. They have for decades collected geneology info on everyone

Now they are advertising on TV daily to send them your DNA "so they can better trace your ancestry"

Now then  what is up with that?

[biggles]

Ancestry.com is owned and operated by the Mormon Church. They have for decades collected geneology info on everyone

Now they are advertising on TV daily to send them your DNA "so they can better trace your ancestry"

Now then  what is up with that?

Yeah for a change I actually knew that; found out a little while ago when I was looking into it.  But I'm not a fan of them and quite a few others.

[biggles]

Oh no dumbass did it again, I go down after the last quote thingy, sorry Zorgon. xxoo

[space otter]

https://www.quora.com/How-is-Ancestry-com-affiliated-with-the-Mormon-Church


pieces from this link


It is a publicly traded company, meaning you can own a part of it.  Ancestry was started in Provo, UT by Paul Allen, who is on Quora.  He surely dug family history research because he's Mormon, surely most people who worked there were Mormon, and his basing the company in a city that is 89% Mormon has surely been a major contributor to its success.  But Ancestry is not a subsidiary of the church.






Ancestry is now owned by several world wide investment companies. Permira bought it out several years ago, they are an global investment firm in Great Britian. They have since sold majority holdings to GIC and Silver Lake Investments 2 more global investment companies. These companies invest in a wide range of businesses, so Ancestry isn't their main investment and it is starting to show. They have no interest in Genealogy, they just like making lots of money from us. Familysearch results do now come up on Ancestry and there is sharing, but Ancestry is not owned by the church.

They continue to buy up every free or reasonable genealogy site and charging us for them. They don't combine them, you have to pay extra for Fold3, archives.com, Newspapers.com - Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s etc. The only one that is still free, at least for now is find-a-grave.com, but they own it so I am sure it will eventually cost us to use that too. They used to compete with genealogy . com but they bought it out and ran it as a separate company charging for both, and for years they split the census etc. between them so you had to pay for both to get all records, they finally joined them a couple of years ago, then raised the price again for their service. When I started with ancestry in 1998 or so it was less than $100 a year, now it is 3 times that and more if you want access to their records from outside the USA and for any of the other companies they own. Since they changed the interface of it, get used to having pages come up with error messages or other pages that aren't what you are looking for. For some reason yesterday I would get the first page of normal entries then I got a page where you had to check records you wanted to search, even though I checked all and put in specific places they lived, I got choices from all over the world, not sure where that came from but, no matter how many times I tried, I would get the first page of results then that other page would come up when you tried to go to page 2.



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Ancestry sold for 1.6 billion in 2012: From selling floppy disks from their car to record breaking website: Ancestry.com agrees to $1.6 billion buyout, making multi-millionaires of its execs

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is a privately held Internet company based in Lehi, Utah, United States. The largest for-profit genealogy company in the world, it operates a network of genealogical and historical record websites focused on the United States and nine foreign countries.[4] As of June 2014, the company provided access to approximately 16 billion historical records and had over 2 million paying subscribers. User-generated content tallies to more than 70 million family trees, and subscribers have added more than 200 million photographs, scanned documents, and written stories.[5]
Ancestry's brands include Ancestry, AncestryDNA, AncestryHealth, AncestryProGenealogists, Archives.com, Family Tree Maker, Find a Grave, Fold3, Newspapers.com, and Rootsweb.[6]
Under its subsidiaries, Ancestry.com operates foreign sites that provide access to services and records specific to other countries in the languages of those countries. These include Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Brazil, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and several other countries in Europe and Asia (covered by Ancestry Information Operations Company).[7]



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Genealogy's Star: Who owns the genealogy companies?
genealogysstar.blogspot.com/2010/05/who-owns-genealogy-companies.html
May 12, 2010 - [11] The first public evidence of the change in ownership of Ancestry Magazine came with the July/August 1997 issue, which showed a newly ...
Ancestry.com agrees to $1.6 billion buyout, making multi-millionaires ...

www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Ancestry-com-agrees-1-6-billion-buyout-making-multi-milli...
Oct 22, 2012 - Fast forward 20 years and their next venture, Ancestry.com, would be ... officer Howard Hochhauser and Spectrum Equity, which owns about 30 ...
Who Owns What in the Genealogy World? - Genealogy & History News

www.gouldgenealogy.com/2014/12/who-owns-what-in-the-genealogy-world/
Dec 27, 2014 - Ancestry.com is the largest commercial genealogy company in the world. ... Current list of the websites and products owned by Ancestry.com:
Ancestry.Com Is Quietly Transforming Itself Into ... - The Huffington Post
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../ancestrycom-medical-research-juggernaut_n_7008446.h...

Apr 6, 2015 - Several years later, he founded Ancestry magazine to teach people how they could use public archives and technology — which, back then, ...
Ancestry.com joins forces with LDS owned FamilySearch | Provo ...
www.heraldextra.com/.../ancestry-com...owned.../article_4ce0e3fc-067a-5546-8f00-a...

Sep 6, 2013 - Ancestry.com joins forces with LDS owned FamilySearch. PROVO -- Provo-based Ancestry.com announced Thursday a long-term strategic partnership with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' FamilySearch International.