Blood shortage puts safety measures in question (Reuters via Yahoo! News) On a Friday afternoon in August, a few donors trickle in to the Baltimore Red Cross donation room, filling only a small fraction of the dozen or so steel-blue beds. [News Source]

FEATURE-US blood shortage puts safety measures in question (AlertNet) Source: Reuters By Ishani Ganguli BALTIMORE, Sept 10 (Reuters) - On a Friday afternoon in August, a few donors trickle in to the Baltimore Red Cross donation room, filling only a small fraction of the ... [News Source]

Spout Off (Cape May County Herald) Sea Isle commits the logical fallacy of the Weak Analogy , equating troop fatigue in Iraq with workers wanting a three-day weekend. The flaw in this method of argument is simple: the analogy always breaks down somewhere. [News Source]

A crimp on blood supplies (The Cincinnati Enquirer) Travel restrictions, recent tattoos or body piercings and other limits have cut into the number of otherwise healthy individuals who could potentially give blood. [News Source]

Prions And Retroviruses - An Unholy Alliance? - Expression Of Endogenous Retroviruses Is Changed After Prion Infection (Medical News Today) In work originating from the Bavarian Research Cooperation Prions (FORPRION), which ended in 2007, a team led by the scientist Prof. Dr. Christine Leib-Mösch has been able to show that prion proteins may activate endogenous retroviruses in infected brain cells. [click link for full article] [News Source]

Grass-fed animals are healthier (Rapid City Journal) “To love and appreciate the Rocky Mountains, you only open your eyes, but to love and appreciate the prairie, you must open your soul.” [News Source]