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Oil price dives as US and Iran pause attacks BBCLive updates: US-Iran war news; US signals pause in Iran strikes will allow talks to progress CNNS&P 500 falls into the red despite Iran fighting pause as chip stocks tumble: Live updates CNBCStock Market Today: Nvidia, Micron, Intel Stocks Drop; Oil Tumbles on Trump-Iran Pause — Live Updates WSJOil Prices Sink After U.S. and Iran Pause Fighting a Second Day The New York Times
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TODAY Derek From is a successful lawyer in Canada. Twelve years ago, he was roughing it in Arizona, trying to break into the recording industry. So he started selling his blood plasma. Twice a week, he sat for an hour in a Grifols Biomat centre, as an apheresis machine whirled, siphoning the plasma out of his blood. For this, he took home $45. "As a poor person" at the time, he found that "a huge economic benefit".
It was also part of a thriving industry. Blood products made up a remarkable 1.6% of American exports in 2016. Since 2005 blood-plasma collections have nearly quadrupled. To critics, this is evidence of a rapacious industry coercing the poor to auction bits of themselves to make ends meet. In fact, plasma, 90% of which is water, is quickly replenished. Giving it has no obvious negative health effects—though the long-term consequences of repeated siphoning have not been fully studied. Strict testing (and later heat-treating) of the extracted plasma ensures that those with communicable...Continue reading
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