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Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. <!– Topic <!– –> Children living in racially segregated neighborhoods have higher levels of lead in their blood, a new study shows. The findings, published in the journal Pediatrics, underscore the negative health effects of policies stemming from systemic racism. The study is the latest from the University of Notre Dame’s Children’s Environmental Health Initiative (CEHI), which examines the adverse and disproportionate environmental burdens experienced by communities in racially segregated areas. The study shows that from 1990 to 2015 blood lead levels in children declined substantially—but levels in non-Hispanic Black children living in racially segregated neighborhoods remain higher than in children living outside those communities. “In the United States, one of the clearest examples of the link between racial residential segregation and environmental exposures is childhood lead exposure—which has been shown to be disproportionately burdensome to members of the Black community,” says Marie Lynn Miranda, director of CEHI and adjunct professor in the applied and computational mathematics and statistics department. “We found that in 1990 there was a strong relationship between communities that were very segregated and children who had more elevated blood lead levels,” Miranda says. “When we look at the data for 2015 we see, unfortunately, that relationship has persisted.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stated there is no amount of lead in the body that is considered safe—and that children are especially sensitive to lead exposure, which can cause damage to the brain and nervous system and result in learning, behavior, hearing, and speech problems. Today, the primary source of exposure is contact with deteriorating lead-based paints which were used in homes built prior to 1978, when lead in paint was banned. As the paint ages, it starts to “chalk,” creating dust that can be inhaled or ingested. Children may also ingest lead-containing paint chips, which, unfortunately, taste sweet. Lead pipes and fixtures can create exposure through drinking water, and lead has been found in certain candies, spices, and herbal remedies. For the study, the researchers analyzed spatial measures of neighborhood-level racial residential segregation—the geographic separation of one racial/ethnic group from others—along with blood lead levels recorded over a 25-year-period in more than 320,000 children under the age of 7 across all 100 counties in North Carolina. “Childhood lead exposure is a classic environmental justice problem,” Miranda says. “Children of color, in particular, non-Hispanic Black children, are exposed to more lead- and racially segregated communities not only have higher levels of lead exposure, but must contend with other adverse social and environmental exposures going on at the same time.” Blood lead testing data was made available by the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services in Raleigh. Miranda says partnering with state and local health departments and community organizations is critical for using what we learn from scientific research to improve children’s lives. “If we can leverage the enormous amount of data that’s out there about where children live, what they’re exposed to, and how that exposure shapes their outcomes, we can determine what kinds of interventions are most needed and most likely to be successful.” The racial residential segregation measure, which CEHI developed, represents a weighted average proportion of the non-Hispanic Black population at the neighborhood level. By using a local, spatial measure of racial residential segregation rather than race itself, CEHI hopes to shift the conversation from using race, which is non-modifiable, as an explanatory variable—to using the experience of racial minorities as a root cause of health disparities. The data is free and available to the public at cehidatahub.org. Source: University of Notre Dame Original Study DOI: 10.1542/peds.2022-058661

2000s nostalgia is about to get way more insane in 2024 now that 3 Inches Of Blood appears to be teasing a reunion. The band hasn’t issued any statement or footage of any kind, but they have returned to social media with a big ol’ blacked out photo of themselves with the year 2024 under it. So y’know – 2024 reunion makes sense to assume. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. It’s worth noting that 3 Inches Of Blood‘s classic 2004 album Advance And Vanquish turns 20 on September 28, 2024. The album features songs like “Deadly Sinners” and “Destroy The Orcs”, and will likely sell out very quickly if an anniversary tour is announced. Want More Metal? Subscribe To Our Daily Newsletter Enter your information below to get a daily update with all of our headlines and receive The Orchard Metal newsletter.

So much for Canada’s mass graves. Two years ago, ground-penetrating radar supposedly discovered mass burial sites near several so-called residential schools for indigenous children funded by the Canadian government and operated by churches (often Catholic ones) from the late 19th century to the late 20th century. The “discovery” prompted a good old-fashioned racial reckoning. You know, the kind necessitating arson and wanton destruction. In response to the radar findings, the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned the apparent mass murder (of kids!). Dozens of Canadian churches, including many that served indigenous communities, were burned to the ground by enraged activists—acts Trudeau described as “understandable,” given the enormity of the racist crimes. The executive director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Union, Harsha Walia, brayed for more, tweeting, “Burn it all down!” Advertisement Now, two years later, we learn that “a series of recent excavations at suspected sites has turned up no human remains,” as the New York Post reported over the weekend. The Pine Creek First Nation dug up fourteen sites near a residential school in Manitoba over the summer, and turned up zilch. As Spiked noted, this latest excavation is only the latest among several similar digs at former residential-school sites, including the Mohawk School in Brantford, the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Nova Scotia, the Charles Camsell Hospital in Edmonton, and the Kuper Island Residential School in British Columbia. All have turned up exactly zero human remains. Other sites almost certainly hold bodies, but these aren’t mass graves of murdered children. Remember the prime minister’s photo-op that showed him holding a teddy bear near a residential school in Cowessess First Nation? The local chief has made clear that that site merely contained unmarked graves, as less-than-sturdy grave markers at the local Catholic cemetery gradually deteriorated under weather. There is no denying that some indigenous children were mistreated in residential schools. But the mass murders and mass burials used to justify attacking churches in general and the Canadian Catholic Church in particular were quite literally a piece of agitprop mythology. Yet amid the mass-graves fever, many Canadian journalists and scholars, including men and women of the left, found themselves ostracized or even out of a job for daring to question the mythology. The Mount Royal University in Calgary, for example, fired the progressive political scientist Frances Widdowson for promoting anti-indigenous views (her real “crime” was questioning the NGO-advocacy industrial complex that, in her view, hinders real development for the community by ginning up fake grievances). The few reporters who did real digging came under severe fire, as Terry Glavin documented for Canada’s National Post. Why did this madness take such deep roots in Canada? Writing for Compact, the progressive anthropologist Kathleen Lowrey has argued that harping on nonexistent or massively exaggerated historical crimes allows Canada’s liberal ruling class to legitimate an economic status quo that has left working- and middle-class Canadians poorer and more miserable than any time since the postwar era. If vast swaths of Canadian society can be written off as the sons and daughters of historical mass murderers, then extraction and austerity—and the crushing of those who opposed extra-draconian Covid policies—could be justified. Advertisement As Lowrey wrote: Subscribe Today Get weekly emails in your inbox The real lesson being delivered is that most Canadians have had it far too good for far too long, and deserve much less than they have got right now. Employment? Bah. The right to squeak about loss of employment? Humbug. A voice in public policy making? Pshaw. The right to protest or even to have a bank account? Um, honk-honk? But I think another explanation for the mass-graves hysteria is naked anti-Catholic bigotry. Against a Canadian medical system that increasingly encourages ailing and disabled people to avail themselves of suicide-by-doctor, sometimes in a less-than-voluntary way, there stands one institution, the Roman church. But what if that institution itself were guilty of mass murdering and mass-burying children? Then its credibility in the public square would be shot, that’s what. Call this what it is: an anti-Catholic blood libel.

Marcia de Rousse, who recurred as Dr. Ludwig on HBO’s True Blood and appeared with Kate Beckinsale in The Disappointments Room, has died. She was 70. Her reps at Beverly Hecht Agency said she died September 2 after a long illness. The diminutive De Rousse got her start in the 1981 Chevy Chase-Carrie Fisher comedy Under the Rainbow and went on to appear in episodes of The Fall Guy and St. Elsewhere during that decade. She had a few roles in the 2000s before being cast in True Blood as Dr. Patricia Ludwig, who treated illnesses acquired by supernatural beings. She appeared in three episodes from the second, fourth and seventh season, last seen fleeing at the mention of Niall Brigant’s name. In The Disappointments Room, de Rousse played a local historian who informs Blacker Estate buyer Dana (Beckinsale) that her new house’s previous occupants had a secret “disappointments room” in the attic, where wealthy socialite families cruelly shuttered their deformed or disabled children.

DAYTON — Community Blood Center, the region’s first blood bank, is celebrating a new era in helping save lives under its new name, Solvita Blood Center, and with two blood drives on Sept. 11 and 12. Register to donate with Solvita at the Christian Academy Schools community blood drive Monday, Sept. 11 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at 2151 W. Russell Road, Sidney, and at the Sidney-Shelby County YMCA community blood drive Tuesday, Sept. 12 from 12:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at 300 E. Parkwood St., Sidney. Make an appointment online at www.DonorTime.com, call 937-461-3220, or use the Donor Time app. Everyone who registers to donate will receive a special edition quarter-zip, long-sleeve shirt featuring the new Solvita logo. The exclusive shirt is the donor gift only during the month of September. The name Solvita comes from “sol” meaning sun and “vita” meaning life. As sunlight nurtures new life, Solvita takes the gift from blood donors and transforms it into new hope. It’s a new name, but the donor experience remains the same. Solvita must register 350 donors every day to meet the needs of the hometown hospitals and patients in our community. Everyone who registers to donate Sept. 5-30 at any blood drive, or the Dayton Solvita Donation Center is automatically entered in the drawing to win a pair of tickets to “The Game,” the Nov. 25 meeting between Ohio State and Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The winner will also receive an Expedia gift card for hotel and travel. You can save time while helping save lives by using “DonorXPress” to complete the donor questionnaire before arriving at a blood drive. Find DonorXPress on the Donor Time App or at www.givingblood.org/donorxpress.

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The American Red Cross along with the Pitt County Branch of the NAACP will hold a blood drive on Sept. 16 in conjunction with National Sickle Cell Awareness Month. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Alice Keene Park Multi-Purpose Room, 4561 County Home Road, to help meet critical demand for people who suffer from sickle cell and other conditions for surgeries and emergencies, organizers said. × This page requires Javascript. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings. Featured Local Savings

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The ongoing heatwave in Ireland could lead to the occurrence of a weather event termed “blood rain”. Temperatures across the country have been soaring this week, with highs of 27C forecast in the warmest regions in the south and east. The hot weather will increase the likelihood of thunderstorms – and “blood rain” or rain mixed with dust, as a weather expert highlighted that a Saharan dust cloud has settled over Ireland. According to the Met Office, “blood rain” occurs when a large concentration of red-coloured dust gets mixed into the clouds, giving rain a reddish appearance as it falls. This rarely, however, happens in the UK where very small quantities of yellow or brown dust get caught with clouds. What you will notice instead is a thin film of dust left behind on your cars, after the rain has evaporated. Alan O’Reilly, who runs the Carlow Weather social media account, on Monday forecast that dusty rain was likely in the southwest of Ireland on Tuesday in a post on X (formerly Twitter). The Carlow Weather tweet read: “Dust will move over Ireland over coming days but larger stay above us unless you catch a shower that brings it down to the surface. Most likely in the Southwest tomorrow.” On Tuesday, Mr O’Reilly shared photos and videos of cars covered in dust, in places such as West Cork, on X. Alongside, he tweeted: “More reports from Southwest of the Saharan dust on cars and windows after showers overnight. “The dust will remain over us for the rest of the week but will only come down with showers.” As per his latest update, dusty rain will continue for “some in the south and west” but the clouds will move “fairly quick and break up” as the week progresses. On Monday, it was reported the Saharan dust clouds will pass over the UK over the next two days, as the Met Officwe said Britons could be treated to “picturesque sunsets” in a post on X.

Twelve months of treatment with an anticoagulant to contributed to a greater benefit than three months of treatment in patients with cancer and minor blood clots (distal deep vein thrombosis), according to results from a recent trial. Findings from this trial were recently presented at ESC Congress 2023. “This is the first and only randomized trial to show the superiority of longer duration over shorter duration of anticoagulation therapy for reducing thrombotic events in cancer patients with isolated distal (deep vein thrombosis),” Dr. Yugo Tamashita of Kyoto University in Japan, said in a press release. “We expect that the results will change practice and clinical guidelines in the cardio-oncology field.” According to the American Cancer Society, patients with cancer have an increased risk for blood clots due to the disease itself, and it may be due to the tissue damage associated with some cancers that may initiate the blood clotting process. The risk for blood clots may increase with certain cancers including lung and pancreatic cancers, in addition to the type of treatment a patient receives and other medications or conditions. Deep vein thrombosis is a condition that occurs when a blood clot forms in the deep vein and is typically seen in the thigh, lower leg or pelvis, although they can also be seen in the arm, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Advertisement In this trial, researchers aimed to compared 12 months of Lixiana (edoxaban) treatment with three months of treatment. Of note, Lixiana is an anticoagulant medication, meaning it decreases the body’s ability to clot blood, which can then prevent harmful blood clots. Researchers enrolled 604 patients (average age, 70.8 years; 72% women) with cancer who recently received a diagnosis of isolated distal (occurring in the lower leg) deep vein thrombosis. Patients in this trial were not previously taking anticoagulation therapy. The most common types of cancer in this trial included ovarian (14%), uterine (13%), lung (11%), colon (9%) and pancreatic cancers (8%). Other types included blood (5%), stomach (5%) and breast cancers (5%). Patients were randomly assigned either 12 months of Lixiana (296 patients) or three months of the anticoagulation therapy (305 patients). The main focus of the trial was symptomatic recurrent venous thromboembolism (blood clot forming in the vein) or death related to venous thromboembolism at 12 months. Other areas of focus included major bleeding events at 12 months. At 12 months, three patients in the 12-month group (1%) experienced a symptomatic recurrent venous thromboembolism compared with 22 patients (7.2%) in the three-month group. Rates of major bleeding events at 12 months were similar in the patients assigned 12 months of treatment compared with three months (9.5% versus 7.2%, respectively). “In cancer patients with isolated distal (deep vein thrombosis), 12 months of (Lixiana) treatment was superior to three months with respect to the composite outcome of symptomatic recurrent (venous thromboembolism) or (venous thromboembolism)-related death with no difference in the rate of major bleeding,” Tamashita said. For more news on cancer updates, research and education, don’t forget to subscribe to CURE®’s newsletters here.

Red Cross Wendi Winters Blood Drive to take place Sept. 9th in Annapolis – CBS Baltimore Watch CBS News Bethany Patterson from the American Red Cross talks about the 12th Wendi Winters Blood Drive View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On