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Saturday, September 4, 2010

Conserving blood

On November 29 2008

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – A local hospital is launching a new program as an alternative to transfusion.

Last year, Bronson Methodist Hospital transfused more than 7,000 units of blood, that’s about 150 transfusions a week, and consider this, one unit of red blood cells can cost up to $1,000.

In an effort to save money and time, Bronson is Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 3%

Explosion rocked a religious sect’s church in Kabacan town in North Cotabato province Wednesday night.

Police said a bomb planted near the concrete fence of Jehovah’s Witnesses Church along Matalam street in Barangay Poblacion exploded at 9:45 p.m. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 5%

By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service

Rushing to express concern over the final adoption in parliament today (26 November) of a restrictive Law that will amend the Religion Law and other Laws were Lutheran, Hare Krishna, Baptist and Ahmadi Muslim representatives, as well as human rights activists. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 2%

By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service

Bilbil Kulyyeva was threatened with incarceration in a psychiatric hospital if she did not stop complaining about punishments imposed for following her faith as a Jehovah’s Witness, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. Officials threatened to put her two underage children in a children’s home and deport the other two. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 2%

For Immediate Release
November 24, 2008

SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan—Following a similar decision in Kyzylorda on November 13, the supervisory collegium of the Southern Kazakhstan Regional Court on November 20 restored religious freedom for Jehovah’s Witnesses in Shymkent and the whole Southern Kazakhstan Region. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 3%

Embattled family pulls together

On November 24 2008

By Philip D. Brown/Richmond County Daily Journal

You don’t really know what matters to you until you face the prospect of losing it.

Sheneca Brown and her three girls have found out who they are and what’s important to them during the ordeal they’ve been through in 2008.

It all began in March, when the baby, Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 4%

By Roberto De Lucca
Diaspora (Italy)

Sunday November 23rd, 2008 for the first time in Italy an assembly of Jehovah’s Witnesses will be held in Twi.

Delegates will mainly arrive from Northern Italy, but many other Ghanaians will come from various parts of Italy. “Some years ago different groups of Jehovah’s Witnesses, in the regions where there is a higher concentration of people from Ghana- the organizers relate Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 7%

By Kevin Myrick, Rome News-Tribune Staff Writer

Members celebrated this morning in worship for the first time at the new Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witness located on Cedartown Highway that was finished in four days at the beginning of the month.

96 members of the congregation’s new Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 10%

For Immediate Release
November 13, 2008

Kazakhstan—With today’s decision, the supervisory collegium of the Kyzylorda Regional Court has restored religious freedom for Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Kyzylorda Region. This decision came following protests initiated by the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 3%

By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service

Azerbaijan continues to obstruct religious worship, Forum 18 News Service has found. Police in the capital Baku have put forward new claims as to why the Abu-Bekr mosque cannot be reopened. The latest police claims, for which no evidence has been produced, are that there is a threat of terrorist attack, that local people Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 2%

Clare Baker, 87: Doctor helped develop ‘bloodless’ open heart surgery

San Grewal
Dr. Clare Baker certainly lived up to the name of the town where he was raised: Biggar, Sask. [...]

Less blood is really more, transfusion critics say

Cutting back on blood use could halt infections, illness — and even death
By JoNel Aleccia
SEATTLE — As a doctor and [...]

Heart surgery with no blood transfusion

You can trust the doc to sometimes do even the impossible. Doctors at Fortis Hospital in the city, have successfully [...]

Strategies for transfusion-free radical retropubic prostatectomy in Jehovah’s Witnesses

by Leonardo Oliveira Reis, MD, MSc, et al.
Monday, 09 August 2010
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) – Radical retropubic prostatectomy is associated historically [...]