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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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

West Ham FC board member Karren Brady says Sky Sports presenters Richard Keys and Andy Gray “make my blood boil”.

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Brady’s blood boils over sexist chat

Sarah Palin has called the post-Tucson campaign of vilification against her and her fellow travelers a “blood libel.” On the one hand, this is unfortunate, as Jonah Goldberg points out , because it threatens to redefine the phrase, plus, what is happening to her is not precisely the byproduct of a blood libel. On the other hand, Sarah Palin  is such an important political and cultural figure that her use of the term “blood libel” should introduce this very important historical phenomenon to a wide audience, and the ensuing discussion — about how Fox News is not actually Mendel Beilis — will serve to enlighten and inform. It is a moral necessity, I think, for Christians to understand the blood libel (Muslims, too — see the Damascus Blood Libel of 1840 ), not only because it is part of their history, but because the blood libel still has modern ramifications — Israel, after all, was founded as a reaction to Christian hatred, of which the blood libel was an obvious and murderous manifestation. I mean it sincerely when I say I hope Sarah Palin, who regularly expresses love for Jews and Israel, takes the time to learn about the history of the blood libel, and shares what she has learned with her many admirers.

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Why Sarah Palin’s Use of ‘Blood Libel’ Is a Great Thing

A group of doctors is trumpeting a shocking medical breakthrough in the medical journal Blood: They say Timothy Ray Brown, a HIV-positive man, has been cured after receiving stem-cell treatment for leukemia. Brown got a bone marrow transplant in 2007,…

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Doctors Claim Cured HIV Patient

A man who took part in one of the worst crimes in Connecticut history that garnered comparisons to the grisly family murder in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood was sentenced to death on Monday, according to The New York Times. After deliberating for three…

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Man Given Death Penalty for Triple Murder