A lucky break with an NHL doctor May 22, 2010
Instead, I returned Feb. 9 -- two major surgeries, a blood transfusion and countless blood tests later -- and found about 30 inches of snow on the ground. Talk about a bad trip. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Come Let Us Reason: Jehovahs Witnesses And Blood May 8, 2010
As unfortunate as the story may seem, one may ask if the Bible really prohibits blood transfusion. Based on the divine prohibition that we should abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled and from blood(Acts 15:20), Jehovahs Witnesses conclude that blood transfusions must be rejected ... What has this to do with blood transfusions. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Elton John says Ryan White turned his life around May 1, 2010
The 18-year-old died on April 8, 1990, about five years after contracting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, through a tainted blood transfusion to treat his hemophilia. The singer befriended the boy during his public battle for acceptance after he was banned from a central Indiana school at age 13, bringing national attention to HIV/AIDS education and the plight of children with HIV in the 1980s. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Amitabh Bachchan has cirrhosis Apr 26, 2010
The liver damage is the result of a blood transfusion after an accident when filming nearly three decades ago. Bachchan said he knew any disclosure about his health could cause alarm in fans but said he wanted to be open. (BBC News -- South Asia)
Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan reveals liver trouble Apr 25, 2010
NEW DELHI: India's megastar Amitabh Bachchan has revealed to his fans that he is suffering from liver cirrhosis that was caused by a blood transfusion he underwent in the 80s. The 67-year-old actor said in his blog that 25% of his liver had been destroyed due to blood transfusion which was done in 1982, after a mishap while filming ... He was badly injured while filming the Hindi movie, "Coolie", and needed blood transfusion to save his life. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Bollywood star Bachchan says has cirrhosis Apr 25, 2010
The 67-year-old Bollywood star said the condition was caused through a blood transfusion following a near-fatal accident while shooting for a film in 1982. "I was therefore technically, or shall we say in medical terminology, a patient by default. A patient that had developed cirrhosis of the liver -- a condition that is normally associated with that of an alcoholic," Bachchan wrote on his blog on Friday. (AlertNet)
Hawks vs Bucks: A foregone conclusion? Apr 17, 2010
Jamal won t be able to get it done (unless somebody gives him about 4 redbulls and a blood transfusion from Mario West), and just about nobody else who can score (this is why it won t be Mario on the court) can do it. Maybe Marvin. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Kobeys boss talks recession, sales Kimberly Kobey Pretto was just 12 years old when she got her first job at a flea market, taking tickets at her grandfathers Park ... Apr 12, 2010
As her fathers health deteriorated in the late 1980s because of an AIDS-tainted blood transfusion, Pretto took on more responsibilities, finally taking on the role of president in 1988, a year before her father died. She spoke last week about the countercyclical ways that recessions and recoveries have affected her business. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Kyrgyzstan: first ICRC relief flight arrives in Bishkek Apr 11, 2010
The organization has been delivering medicine, blood bags and other medical supplies to local hospitals and, along with the Kyrgyz Red Crescent Society, to the capital's main blood transfusion centre, helping these facilities treat over 500 casualties. On Friday 9 April, an ICRC team that included a health specialist travelled to Talas, in the north of the country, to deliver aid and assess the situation. (AlertNet)
Plea for more Asian donors Apr 11, 2010
" Philip Dyer is professor of Transplant Science at the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service. He said: "It's important, essential in organ transplantation that we match up the donor and recipient for blood groups, and in particular the blood group B is much more common in the Asian population than it is in the white European population. "So in order for kidneys to work properly and not to fail immediately we need to make sure they are biologically compatible. "In Scotland there are a few... (BBC News -- UK)
'Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk' Apr 7, 2010
If you need a blood transfusion, forget it. Not allowed. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Potential Risk to Blood Supply Probed... Apr 6, 2010
Many viruses also have long incubation periods, making it harder to recognize that the virus was transmitted by a blood transfusion ... These viruses are transmitted in every blood transfusion, but aren't known to cause diseases in recipients, says Dr. Busch ... The Whittemore Peterson institute, established by the family of a chronic fatigue patient, has started collecting blood from CFS patients who got their diagnosis following a blood transfusion and plan to launch their own study of the... (The Drudge Report)
Correlation Between XMRV and Prostate Cancer: Novel Retrovirus Diagnostic Test Developed Apr 6, 2010
No method is available to screen either blood or tissue donors for infection and no data are available regarding whether the virus can be transmitted by blood transfusion or tissue transplantation. Dr. Petros comments, "The public deserves to know if the next blood transfusion or organ donation will give them XMRV retrovirus, an infection which lasts for life, and could possibly be related to prostate cancer. The failure to develop accurate tests for this virus is a serious public health... (Science Daily)
State gets $65.6M in AIDS funds Apr 6, 2010
Ryan White was an Indiana teenager with hemophilia who contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion. He fought AIDS-related discrimination and helped educate the nation about his disease. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Great secrets about Jesus's blood Apr 5, 2010
We can receive blood transfusion from the other blood groups, namely blood groups A, B, and O but can donate blood only to people with blood type AB.. Yet while I have the same blood type as Jesus, that is where the similarity ends, for whereas the typology of the blood of other people with blood type AB is the same as mine, the mathematical probability of finding someone with the typology of Jesuss bloods is estimated by scientists to be about one in 200 billion {1 in 200,000,000,000. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Photojournalist Margaret Moth passe... Apr 4, 2010
After this near fatal injury, Margaret had to undergo several reconstructive surgeries to her face and also contracted Hepatitis C from an infected blood transfusion that was administered to her sometime after being hit. Gayle Young, former CNN Cairo correspondent however recalls Margaret rollerblading through the halls of the Al-Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad with a glass of Baileys Irish Cream. (Suite101.com)
U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson battling hepatitis C Apr 1, 2010
Before 1992, hepatitis C was commonly transmitted through blood transfusions ... He also said he has never had a blood transfusion. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Colleagues honor camerawoman Moth Mar 23, 2010
She got hepatitis C from the initial blood transfusion in Sarajevo that saved her life ... In 1997, I went to Paris to cover for her as she had just found out she had hepatitis C, contracted from a bad blood transfusion given to her in Sarajevo, after she was shot ... She had also contracted hepatitis from the first emergency blood transfusions in Sarajevo after her terrible injury. (CNN)
Camerawoman was fearless in war Mar 23, 2010
The multiple reconstructive surgeries that followed, as well as the hepatitis C she contracted from a consequent blood transfusion, were mere obstacles she moved around. But more than three years after being diagnosed with colon cancer, her tremendous life journey has come to an end. (CNN)
A New Way to Zap Away Uterine Fibroids Mar 18, 2010
Uterine fibroids are a common condition that can lead to a host of problems, including prolonged, heavy menstrual bleeding that can be severe enough to cause anemia or require blood transfusion; severe pelvic pain and pressure; urinary frequency; pain during intercourse; problems with becoming pregnant, miscarriage and complications during pregnancy. About 20 percent to 40 percent of women aged 35 and older have uterine fibroids. (MEDLINEplus)
High-risk lifestyle Mar 13, 2010
HEPATITIS C TRANSMISSION ROUTES Sharing drug-taking equipment Blood transfusions and blood products - if you received a blood transfusion before September 1991 or blood products before 1986 in the UK From infected mother to baby, before or during birth Through unprotected sex with someone who has the virus Medical and dental treatment abroad, where unsterile equipment may have been used Tattooing, ear or body piercing, acupuncture, electrolysis and semi-permanent make-up where unsterile... (BBC News -- Health)
C-SECTIONS: Study examines complications in mothers Mar 10, 2010
Blood transfusion 1998-1999: 2 ... They found a 90% increase in blood transfusions and a 50% increase in pulmonary embolisms, or blood clots in the lungs. (USA Today -- News)
Benefit is held to fund cancer research locally Mar 5, 2010
He later discovered he had contracted Hepatitis C through a blood transfusion during his cancer treatment. His Hepatitis C was cured through treatment which was researched in the 1970s through ACSfunding. (Williston Daily Herald, ND)
American Optimism Based on People not Politicians Mar 1, 2010
As Dr. Kenneth McFarland used to say, Government aid is much like giving yourself a blood transfusion by taking blood from your right arm and putting it back in your left while watching half of your blood leak out in between. . (Townhall.com)
Grandma is getting AIDS Feb 23, 2010
The surest way to get HIV is to share any sort of needle with another person whether for drugs, blood transfusions or diabetic medications ... Parrish was exposed through a blood transfusion when she started hemorrhaging during childbirth. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
Johnson Memorial Pays $191,000 To Resolve Allegations Feb 23, 2010
The Stafford Springs hospital allegedly billed Medicare beyond what was allowed for infusion therapy, chemotherapy administration and blood transfusion services. Medicare limited payments for infusion therapy and chemotherapy administration to one per patient visit, and limited blood transfusion payments to one unit per day ... In a written statement, U.S. Attorney Nora R. Dannehy said: "Billing for inflated charges relating to chemotherapy, infusion, and blood transfusion services siphons... (FOX61, CT)
Post a Comment Feb 22, 2010
The game has one new feature that sounds like it could be fun: a Keith Richards uber-weapon that players painstakingly charge via a complete blood transfusion prior to deployment. Once Keith gets past the customs agents, watch out. (IGN PC Games)
CDC starts online surveillance of blood transfusion events Feb 20, 2010
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will collect data about the after effects of blood transfusions in a new application of its Internet-based National Healthcare Safety Network, the agency has announced ... The agency is expanding the network to include the Hemovigilance Module, which is an application that collects and analyzes data on patients who have received blood transfusions. (FCW.com)
Restrictions on Female Plasma May Not Be Warranted Feb 14, 2010
"As required, regulatory policies are now in place to minimize the risk of severe TRALI, but there appears to be a spectrum of pulmonary (lung) injuries that may be associated with blood transfusion and these may not all be impacted by the policies that restrict plasma collection to male donors exclusively.". The study did not specifically address the catastrophic lung problem. (Science Daily)
Vancouver 2010 Games Spur Blood Doping Fears Feb 13, 2010
Known as blood doping, the banned practice involves getting a blood transfusion near game time to give yourself more, richer blood than nature can produce ... 2-mile) races if the athletes were given 400-milliliter blood transfusions beforehand. (National Geographic)
ProMetic Life Sciences Inc./VCJD Infection: A Continuing Threat to Public Health Feb 4, 2010
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - Feb. 4, 2010) - Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease ("vCJD") remains 'a very real and continuing threat to public health and recent developments strongly support predictions of second and third waves of long incubation vCJD' commented Dr Robert Rohwer, Director, Molecular Neurovirology Laboratory and Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, U.S., speaking at today's GovNet Communications' Patient Safety 2010 Conference held at the... (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Spongiform Brain Diseases Are Caused by Aberrant Protein, New Research Shows Jan 31, 2010
1, 2008) A nine-year study in sheep has added to the evidence that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) can be transmitted through blood transfusion in humans. The likelihood of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy. (Science Daily)
Life of misery Jan 31, 2010
"The blood loss, even in mild cases, can be bad enough after operations or severe nosebleeds to warrant blood transfusion. Mild forms of the disease are harder to diagnose than the more severe forms," she said. "In one severe case a girl died with her second period because the bleeding could not be controlled. "I have a feeling we are missing a high number of patients whose blood disorder is just being put down to heavy periods. (BBC News -- UK)
Star power helps garner more Haiti donations Jan 22, 2010
For instance, when Marlee Matlin was pregnant, she needed a blood transfusion. Because of her personal connection, she reached out to help us in our efforts to get people to donate blood. (MSNBC -- News)
Lord Monckton Jan 21, 2010
Ask someone who got AIDS from a blood transfusion because blood wasn't tested for PC reasons. Exchange TB for AIDS and see what happens; no-one has a problem with isolation TB patients. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Lose 10 pounds in 10 weeks: Mom of 3 keeps food simple Jan 18, 2010
I would be walking around looking like I needed a blood transfusion. I am a tall girl. (USA Today)
Report: Hepatitis B, C overlooked Jan 13, 2010
Those at highest risk for hepatitis C include current or former injecting drug users and people who received a blood transfusion before 1992. Increase research into a vaccine for hepatitis C.. (USA Today -- News)
Newsweek: Hepatitis C hits Baby Boomers hard Jan 12, 2010
Boomers may have also become infected by a blood transfusion or organ transplant before 1992, when officials began screening the blood supply for the disease. Of those infected with the virus, about 60-70 percent will develop chronic liver disease. (MSNBC -- Health)
Bulls luck is the pits Jan 10, 2010
The poor cat had a blood transfusion and was shaved to have a spleen aspirate, for which his fur never grew back. We made his life comfortable for the next 4 months with steroids, which was the treatment we should have been offered right from the start. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Swine Flu Can Batter Kids with Sickle Cell Jan 10, 2010
The study also found that patients with swine flu were five times more likely to be admitted to the intensive care unit and were more likely to require a blood transfusion and to have to be put on a ventilator. The study findings were scheduled to be presented Dec. 7 at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology in New Orleans. (MEDLINEplus)
