A blood transfusion could save him, but his wife, torn between her husband's life and their beliefs as Jehovah's Witnesses--a religious community that prohibits transfusions .
Previous trials have shown that heart disease patients, for example, who receive a blood transfusion to help restore oxygen to deprived tissues, have a 25% chance of having a heart .
Rodriguez's parents had refused a blood transfusion, and the girl's doctors felt that without it the operation was even more risky.
Oral Anti-Cancer Therapy REVLIMID® (lenalidomide) Now Indicated as a Treatment for Patients with Rare Form of Blood ... BOUDRY, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Celgene International Sàrl (NASDAQ: CELG) was today notified that the European Commission (EC) has amended the marketing authorisation for REVLIMID®. This decision means that REVLIMID is now approved to treat patients with transfusion-dependent anaemia due to low or intermediate-1 risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) associated with an isolated deletion 5q ...
June 17, 2013 - Business Wire
STORY OF THE WEEK Some hospitals turning to transfusions less often
June 16, 2013 - The Times of Northwest Indiana
Alexandre Vinokourov in Forbes I heard that I made a transfusion with my father's blood,Vinokourov said. "That's absurd, I can tell you that with his blood, I would have tested positive for vodka."
Gordon Brown in International Herald Tribune We need a transfusion of capital into the global economy,Brown said. "I'm going to ask the G20 summit next week to support a global expansion of trade finance of $100 billion to help revive trade in all parts of the world."
Sonny Lubick in SportingNews.com I think when they were in there in the scope they thought they could maybe try to fix that a little bit,Lubick said. "But yet he still needed some transfusion yesterday and so I'm sure he lost a lot of blood. I can't say much more than...