The foundation of late US President Ronald Reagan expresses outrage after a vial said to have held a sample of his blood is offered for auction.

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Anger over ‘Reagan blood’ auction

An 83-year-old man becomes the oldest person in the UK to donate a kidney while still alive, the NHS Blood and Transplant service says.

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Oldest living kidney donor at 83

The year 1935 marked the Washington arrival of Joseph Wright Alsop V, a hefty, amusing, arrogant, 25-year-old reporter for the old New York Herald Tribune who quickly managed to take the town by storm. It helped that the occupants of the White House were known to the young man affectionately as “Cousin Franklin” and “Cousin Eleanor,” and they weren’t above slipping juicy morsels of inside information to their blood relative. Read full article > >

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‘The Columnist’ provides insightful look at D.C. journalist Joseph Alsop

Half of people with diabetes in England are failing to keep control of their blood pressure, risking a range of “damaging” complications, figures suggest.

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Diabetes blood pressure warning

Michael Copperthite has butter, sugar and flour in his blood. His great-great-grandfather was Henry Copperthite, the so-called “Pie King” of Georgetown and founder of the Connecticut-Copperthite Pie Co. Michael loves nothing more than to wax poetic about his family, a line of piemakers dating to the Civil War era. Read full article > >

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Resurrecting a slice of history? Easy as pie.

Hemophilia B is the first well-known disease to appear treatable by gene therapy, a technique with a 20-year record of almost unbroken failure.

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Hemophilia B Gene Therapy Breakthrough

Warning: The subject of this exploration will constrict your blood vessels, choke your windpipe and dispatch you to an early grave, 5 million of you a year . The most lucrative crop the Americas have ever seen, it kept the British at bay, kept the enslaved entrapped, kept Hollywood sexy. Until it didn’t anymore. Read full article > >

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On Maryland tobacco farms, turning a tradition into potential health benefits

Andy Whitfield, star of US TV drama, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, dies at the age of 39.

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Spartacus TV actor Whitfield dies

A chemical in the blood could one day help doctors spot early signs of ovarian cancer, research suggests.

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Early blood clue to ovary cancer

And it came to pass that many African American youths could not celebrate D.C. Emancipation Day on Friday. For a plague of violence had been visited upon them. And the soil once toiled by slaves was soaked with the blood of free-born blacks.

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Emancipation is hard to celebrate when kids are still slave to city’s violence

Dr. Blumberg’s work led to the discovery of the hepatitis B virus in 1967, the first test for hepatitis B in the blood supply and the development of the hepatitis B vaccine.

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Baruch Blumberg, 85, Dies; Helped Make Hepatitis Vaccine

An organ recipient in New York City has contracted HIV after a kidney transplant-the first transmission via transplant in New York since screening was implemented in 1985. The donor apparently had unprotected sex after the blood test and before the…

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New York Organ Recipient Gets HIV

Drugs used to regulate levels of cholesterol in the blood may also reduce the risk of dangerous blood clots, say researchers.

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Cholesterol drugs could cut clots

Bloodstream infections caused by tubes inserted into major blood vessels of intensive care patients showed a big drop from 2001 to 2009, government researchers said.

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Infection Type Drops in Intensive Care

Libya’s fate lies in the hands of its citizens and a ruler intent on keeping power at whatever the cost in the blood of protesters. But the United Nations, the United States and other governments can help protect those protesters from Gadhafi’s guns and encourage a democratic result. To do so, they should quickly replace catch-phrase condemnations with resolute steps.

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Opinion: Hold Gadhafi accountable