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• To meet the needs of local patients the San Diego Blood Bank must collect more than 350 units of blood each day.
• SAN DIEGO, Feb. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The life-saving work of the San Diego Blood Bank serves hospitals in Southern California, including trauma centers and neonatal intensive care units.
• "We are grateful for the opportunity to positively impact our community by partnering with the San Diego Blood Bank to support this donation drive."
• We're proud to support the life-saving donation drive and partner with fantastic organizations like the San Diego Blood Bank, "says Milad Hassibi, marketing manager, Mulligan Funding.

• LONDON, Oct. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Global lifestyle brand MINISO celebrated the official opening of its first UK "Blind Box" store on Shaftesbury Avenue, London, on Friday, 29th September.
• Offering over 50 different blind boxes filled with mystery toys and collectibles, the new store promises to ignite a blind box frenzy, infusing MINISO's signature atmosphere of joy into the heart of central London.
• The new 40m2 store is MINISO's first in central London and will bring MINISO's co-branded blind box collections with some of the world's best-known IP owners altogether under one roof.
• It is our honour to open MINISO's first 'Blind Box' store here," said Saad Usman, Chief Operating Officer of MINISO UK.

• JUPITER, FL, Sept. 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SRM Entertainment , Inc. (Nasdaq: SRM) today announced the expansion of the multi-year global licensing agreement signed with Los Angeles-based Zoonicorn , the multiplatform animated preschool brand from Zoonicorn, LLC and Toonz Entertainment.
• SRM and Zoonicorn are expanding the licensing agreement to additional Zoonicorn branded products which include plush and vinyl backpacks, tumblers and plastic drinkware.
• SRM Entertainment will feature the Zoonicorn product line September 30 thru October 3, 2023 at the North American International Toy Fair in New York City (Booth #2689).
• Global licensing for the brand is shared by Toonz Entertainment and Zoonicorn and is headed by J’net Smith of All Art Licensing.

• Being diagnosed with COVID makes sense of symptoms, determines what we should do about them, and shapes our collective responsibility to the community.
• You have symptoms, the doctor examines or tests you, you get a name for what ails you.
• Even a diagnosis as seemingly clear-cut as COVID is more than just a label stuck to a virus.
• Read more:
  COVID testing led to new techniques of disease diagnosis: progress mustn’t stop now

Diagnosis as storytelling

• Diagnosis is so important to understanding our lives and those around us that it’s often applied outside of the health setting.
• TV shows such as House use diagnostic mysteries to underpin plots – less Whodunit and more Whatisit.
• A diagnosis is a story, in and of itself.
• You have an infection of your lungs, probably caused by bacteria or a virus and possibly triggered by that cold you had last week.

Stories and deviance

• Diagnostic stories are explanations of deviance.
• By “deviance” we mean the sociological sense of the term: an inability to meet social expectations of behaviour, belief or experience.
• To explain deviance, we often defer to diagnosis.
• More than 150 scientific authors have thrown themselves at finding a diagnosis to explain his deviance.

Medicalising experiences

• These stories say more about us, the diagnosers, and our contemporary views, than the lives of those they seek to describe.
• By using diagnosis to explain people, we medicalise our experience of the world and shut down other avenues of explanation.
• Just as explaining an imaginary character via diagnosis means we’ve lost faith in stories.