Give blood play rugby. Rugby slogan
I use blood to ensure my immortality in the world. Vlad the Vampire, Illinois
And does this same DNA match the blood you found on the back-gate of Bundy? And does it match the blood you found inside Mr Simpson’s Broncho? And does it match the DNA and the blood you found leading up to Mr Simpson’s house, and on the sock at the foot of his bed? The People vs O J Simpson: American Crime Story VIII, Marsha to expert
Professor Andrew Ackerman on The Importance of Blood Stains in the Detection of Crime. Rumpole of the Bailey s3e4: Rumpole and the Female of the Species, Rumpole erects bookshelf, ITV 1983
Of all the wonders of the human body there’s one that I think is more mysterious than any other. The very sight makes some people faint. Losing half will kill you. And it permeates our culture as much as our bodies. The Wonderful World of Blood with Michael Mosley, BBC 2016
Red blood cells: your blood contains around 17 trillion ... blood can only hold so much oxygen. ibid.
Plasma makes up more than half our blood and is key to its second remarkable ability: to absorb the mindboggling variety of substances that come from the food we scoff and deliver them as energy. ibid.
60,000 miles of tubing ... it looks like a vast and complex bit of plumbing. ibid.
Blood-letting was the most common medical practice for two thousand years. ibid.
White blood cells: a healthy adult has about forty billion of them. ibid.
And when the wind blows it brings the smell of blood which is heavy and sweet. All Quiet on the Western Front 1979 starring Richard Thomas & Ernest Borgnine & Donald Pleasence & Ian Holm & Patricia Neal & Paul Mark Elliott & Dai Bradley & Matthew Evans & George WInter & Dominic Jephcott et al, director Delbert Mann
It is the worst disaster in the history of the NHS. Over 2,000 have died, thousands more are still suffering. The victims were all given contaminated blood products twenty-five years ago. At just one school for disabled children dozens were infected with lethal viruses. Even now new cases are still being diagnosed. This is the story of Britain’s contaminated blood disaster and the search for the truth. Panorama: Contaminated Blood: The Search for the Truth, BBC 2017
For the first time HIV was found in the UK blood donations. Now, not even British Factor 8 was safe from the virus. ibid.
The victims agreed to sign. But scientists had only recently identified the virus for Hepatitis C … present in British blood products as well as American. ibid.
No evidence has been found of government negligence either. But if it were, victims could claim compensation. ibid.
Sepsis: one of Britain’s biggest killers. Poor treatment is causing thousands of preventable deaths. Panorama: Why Mum Died: Britain’s Sepsis Crisis, BBC 2017
Sometimes called the Silent Killer, Sepsis is triggered by an infection. The body’s immune system overreacts and can lead to multiple organ failure and death. ibid.
The picture that emerges is of a post-code lottery. ibid.
A place we never see – the blood sciences lab … Across the UK, 300,000 patients are tested every day. The Secret Life of the Hospital, Channel 5 2018
If we shift toward a model in which we are determining the onset of disease in time for therapy to be effective we will change outcomes. The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, Elizabeth Holmes, 2019
Elizabeth has raised more than $400 million; the company is valued at $9 billion. ibid. observer
Nestled in the foothills above Silicon Valley there is a 700-acre plot of land called the Stanford Research Park … In the fall of 2014 she [Holmes] moved her bio-tech start-up Theranos to the research park. The company employed 800 people and was valued at nearly $10 billion: 4 years later it was worth less than zero. ibid. commentary
The value of the story: this compelling tale of divining hundreds of diseases from a drop of blood. ibid.
She had a policy of controlling demonstrations and tightly guarding access to the Edison prototypes. ibid.
It was a mess inside. ibid. company worker on machine
Then after a whole people became paranoid of one another. ibid. worker
With the Walgreens rollout, the problems at Therenos were magnifying. ibid.
126,496. Their downfall was when they started giving us results that were not matching up with other labs. (Invention & Fraud & Con & Company & Machine & Blood) ibid. woman
Internally, we had so little faith in these tests but were still resulting them on patients. ibid. lab technician
Nothing works. We’re on a sinking ship. It’s a lie. ibid. worker
I knew that most of their blood tests were run on commercial analysers. ibid. John Carreyrou, The Wall Street Journal
In 2018 Theranos dissolved. Elizabeth and Sunny were charged with conspiracy and fraud. ibid.
Man slain while asleep: Sheriff’s detectives have not determined a motive in the slaying of a man shot while asleep in a downstairs bedroom of his north Harris County home. Exhibit A s1e2: Blood Spatter, Chronicle newspaper article 23 April 1987, Netflix 2019
With me finding the high velocity impact spatter on her gown puts Norma Clark within three feet or less of her husband [Ed] whenever he was killed. ibid. blood spatter expert
Almost 25 years later to 2010 they get out this dirty stained bedraggled nightgown and they take a look at it under a powered magnifying glass and they see what they think is blood spatter … Lo and behold, the blood spatter does not test positive for blood. ibid. defence lady
Norma Jean Clark received a 25 year prison sentence for the 1987 shooting death of her husband Edmond. ibid. Fox 26 news
I’ve never understood how I was convicted under evidence they didn’t have. There was nothing there. ibid. Norma
Secret tests gave patients a substitute for blood. Freep online news report Steve Neavling 22nd May 2007
For Andrew and an increasing number of Britain’s 3,000 haemophiliacs this means a special concentrated form of American Factor 8 called Hemophil. World in Action: Blood Money I, ITV 1975
Hemophil is made from thousands of donations of human blood plasma … But products like Hemophil, as its makers admit, also carry a high risk of transmitting hepatitis. ibid.
Blood and plasma products like Factor 8 are big business in America. ibid.
Once again we find ourselves amongst men at the bottom of American society … It is not unusual for them to lie about their health. ibid.
Buying plasma is an international business. ibid.
Britain does produce some Factor 8 concentrate but most is imported and comes from paid donors. World in Action: Blood Money II
An unprecedented outbreak of hepatitis among Britain’s 3,000 haemophiliacs.
The Department of Health was advised against importing concentrates. ibid.
This plant in Elstree makes Factor 8 and other treatments from half the blood given by two million donors. It’s among the most important facilities in the National Health Service. But it’s in serious trouble because it’s overstretched, badly designed and dilapidated. It’s cramped and ill-equipped. And it’s been condemned as clinically unsafe by the government’s own health inspectors. World in Action: The Blood Business, ITV 1980
Hospitals have faced soaring demand for health products … We have had to buy from abroad. ibid.
In recent months the killer disease AIDS has started to take a deadly toll among haemophiliacs in Britain. Over half have been infected with the AIDS virus after being treated with a national health service supplied clotting agent, Factor 8, designed to cure their blood disorder. World in Action: Bad Blood, ITV 1985
That’s a lot of blood. I don’t think he’s meant to look like that. Top Boy s3e8: Bad Eye, knee punishment, Netflix 2022
Gus: This is what comes from blood for blood. Sangre por sangre.
Hector: Yes, that is the Salamanca way. Better Call Saul s6e1: Wine & Roses, AMC 2022