A recent study found that watching a horror movie literally makes your blood thicken by increasing a blood clotting protein called Factor VIII. The clotting factor level increased in 57% of participants during the horror movie. – WTF Fun Facts
HUNDREDS of people with a genetic disorder could have been spared infection with HIV if England had sought help from Scotland in manufacturing blood…
HUNDREDS of people with a genetic disorder could have been spared infection with HIV if England had sought help from Scotland in manufacturing blood products, new documents suggest.
Thought to be the worst treatment disaster in NHS history, the contaminated blood scandal left thousands of patients infected with hepatitis and HIV and caused many early deaths. Most of those involved had the blood-clotting disorder haemophilia and relied on regular injections of Factor VIII to survive.
Despite repeated warnings about contamination, they continued to be given the product throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
A newly-released letter dated January 1990 shows Scotland could have helped England produce the much-needed blood product Factor VIII for patients there – but government officials rejected the idea and imported large quantities of Factor VIII from risky sources abroad, including US prisoners and drug addicts who were infected with HIV and other diseases....
...Evans, founder of the Factor 8 campaign group, commented: “The statistics say it all – 59 haemophiliacs were infected with HIV in Scotland, as opposed to 1,243 in England, where a high proportion of HIV-infected Factor VIII from the US was used.
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Doubtless the cost of the Scottish clotting factor was slightly higher that the diseased-riddled stuff from the US and cost is the only thing Tories take into consideration.
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Hemophilia– Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment and Ongoing care
Inherited bleeding disorders caused by a deficiency of coagulant factor VIII (hemophilia A) or factor IX (hemophilia B, also called Christmas Disease). They are clinically indistinguishable but can be differentiated by assays that detect levels of factors VIII and IX.
Hemophilia– Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment and Ongoing care
Title: Factor VIII
Author: PreciousMellow
Rating: R
Blaine suffers from Hemophilia, this means that his blood can't clot or takes a really long time to clot - any kind of bump, cut or graze could potentially kill him and he bruises easily without even feeling it. It's possible to live with it but life is difficult.
The story is a two parter and only the first part is up. It's so good that it's almost hourly I jump on this page and refresh it in the hopes of part two being updated. I love the Klaine relationship dynamic - it's real (and if you know me and my recc's you'd know that realness is a massive thing in fics for me). Also - chapter two promises sex... so there's that too.