Dispensary Corner 18 May 10
May 18, 2010
THE New Zealand Blood Service
has launched a new campaign
which uses vampires to encourage
people to donate blood.
The joint promotion also aims
to advertise the True Blood
vampire TV series and the books
upon which it is based.
Reprints of the True Blood
novels by Charlaine Harris will
include cover messages
promoting blood donation.
The service downplayed
suggestions that the promotion is
in bad taste, with spokesperson
Paul Hayes saying the “fun and
quirky” idea aimed to encourage
fans of the series to do something
positive and worthwhile.
“We quite literally need new
blood,” he said.
SMALLGOODS manufacturers
are likely to be quaking in their
boots after a team at Harvard
University found that eating
sausages is more likely to increase
the risk of heart disease than
unprocessed red meats.
The researchers found that just
50g of processed meat each day
boosted cardiovascular risk as
well as diabetes - with the same
effect not seen when eating even
twice as much beef, lamb or pork.
The results were consistent even
when both forms of meat had a
similar fat content, with the study
in the journal Circulation
speculating that the differences
were due to salt and preservatives.
THE body of a man who died
more than a year ago will be
exhumed in the US, after a court
ruled that his head should be cut
off and cryogenically frozen.
The Iowa Court of Appeals has
upheld a request from the Alcor
Life Extension Foundation, which
had signed a contract with the
deceased, 81-year-old Orville
Richardson, some years before his
demise in 2009.
Richardson paid US$53,500 to
have his head placed in cryonic
suspension after he died, but
instead his brother and sister had
him buried after telling him they
didn’t want to go along with his
wacky plan.
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