Data Stream
Blood on the Album Tracks
No Money, Mo’ Problems
Thanks to some creative password-guessing, we got a peek
into the ASH Executive Committee’s Pandora playlists.
With increasing competition for dwindling federal research dollars, investigators are feeling the squeeze. To
help fill in the funding gap, creative scientists are turning
to some unlikely sources. Here’s how researchers raised
cash in the last year:
What we found probably won’t surprise you.
533,000
$
“Sunday Bloody Sunday” by U2
from crowdfunding sites like GoFundMe and Kickstarter
89,000
“Hot-Blooded” by Foreigner
$
“Blood Sugar Sex Magik” by Red Hot Chili Peppers
“Raining Blood” by Slayer
from Hem-Onc Scout cookie sales (the Blood Thinner Mints
and Plasma Butter Patties were best-sellers!)
“First Blood” by AC/DC
6,800
$
“Blood on Blood” by Bon Jovi
from renting out empty hospital rooms on Airbnb
“Blood Brothers” by Bruce Springsteen and the E
2,440
$
Street Band
“Power in the Blood” by Dolly Parton
from saving laundry and food costs by moving back in with parents
“Bleeding Love” by Leona Lewis
14
$
“A Rush of Blood to the Head” by Coldplay
from selling a copy of ASH SAP (Fourth Edition) on eBay –
“Let it Bleed” by the Rolling Stones
signed by the Editor Keith McCrae, MD!
“Bad Blood” by Taylor Swift
3
1
1
4
1
1
10
1
3
1
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Words with Friends
Want to dominate the competition in a friendly game of Scrabble? Keep these high-scoring words in your
back pocket:
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ASH Clinical News
Doxorubicin: 23 points
Dexamethasone: 26 points
Macroglobulinemia: 26 points
Obinutuzumab: 27 points
Hematopathologist: 28 points
Carfilzomib: 29 points
April 2016