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  • Gay Blood Donation Ban Could Be Lifted: Gay men may donate blood if abstinent for a year.

    11/14/2014 7:17:44 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 75 replies
    US News and World Report ^ | 11/14/2013 | By Nikki Schwab
    Gay men just got a step closer to being able to donate blood. Since 1983, men who have had sex with men anytime since 1977 were barred from donating blood, a policy put in place because of the HIV/AIDs epidemic, which especially ravaged the gay community in its early years. But on Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Advisory Committee on Blood and Tissue Safety voted 16-2 to tweak the ban, according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, suggesting instead that men who have had sex with men could give blood, but with a caveat. They’d have to be abstinent for...
  • Colorado man’s fatal West Nile infection likely came from blood transfusion

    08/08/2013 12:58:09 PM PDT · by neverdem · 3 replies
    KDVR.com ^ | August 8, 2013 | Matt Farley
    DENVER — A Colorado man who died of West Nile virus last year was likely infected through a blood transfusion, a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. The man, who was undergoing treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, began developing West Nile symptoms after 29 days in the hospital, sharply narrowing the number of ways he could have been exposed to the virus, according to the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. He died after 47 days in the hospital. Eighteen days prior to showing symptoms, the patient received a blood transfusion that health officials now believe contained...
  • "Jehovah's Witnesses who refuse blood transfusions after cardiac surgery at no greater health risk"

    09/19/2012 12:25:08 PM PDT · by count-your-change · 23 replies
    Health Pop July 3, 2012 ^ | July 3,2012 | Michelle Castillo
    "The study looked at 48,986 non-Witnesses who had blood transfusions and 322 Witnesses who refused to have blood transfusions who all underwent cardiac surgery between 1983 to 2011. After matching the patients up by similar cases, researchers found both groups had similar risks for dying at the hospital. However, Witnesses had lower chances of having additional operations for bleeding, renal failure and sepsis compared with non-Witnesses who received transfusions"
  • Worsening health of terror cleric could spark attacks, FBI warns

    12/14/2006 12:20:51 PM PST · by WestTexasWend · 25 replies · 691+ views
    WASHINGTON -- The health of terrorist cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman, the so-called Blind Sheik, is deteriorating _ renewing fears that his death in prison could trigger an attack on the United States, officials said Thursday. There is no credible indication that an attack on the U.S. is imminent, said several law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the situation. In a two-page bulletin, dated Dec. 8, the FBI reported to federal intelligence officials that Rahman was rushed from prison to a Missouri hospital two days earlier for a blood transfusion. There, doctors discovered...
  • Pa. judge says inmate can refuse blood transfusion

    10/07/2009 6:39:40 PM PDT · by Born Conservative · 11 replies · 422+ views
    Philly.com ^ | 10/7/09 | Peter Jackson
    HARRISBURG, Pa. - The state of Pennsylvania cannot force a seriously ill prison inmate to undergo a blood transfusion , even if it could save his life, a Commonwealth Court judge said in a decision released Wednesday. Senior Judge Keith B. Quigley said inmate Anthony Lindsey's wishes must be respected under the First Amendment, whether they are based on religion or something else. Lindsey, 37, an inmate at the Laurel Highlands state prison in Somerset, refuses to allow a transfusion because it violates his religious beliefs as a Jehovah's Witness. A doctor at the prison said in court papers that...
  • A Tragic End To a Troubled Life

    11/30/2007 9:21:03 PM PST · by crabpott · 3 replies · 143+ views
    Skagit Valley Herald ^ | 11/29/07 | Franny White
    14-year-old Dennis Lindberg dies just hours after a Skagit County judge uphold the youth's right to refuse a blood transfusion because of his religious convections
  • Blood Transfusion Linked to 2nd Human Case of Mad Cow

    08/05/2004 10:17:35 PM PDT · by neverdem · 11 replies · 759+ views
    The Washington Post ^ | August 6, 2004 | Marc Kaufman
    British researchers have found a second person who became infected with the human version of mad cow disease as the result of a contaminated blood transfusion. Reporting in the journal Lancet, the researchers said they had found the malformed proteins, or prions, that cause the disease in an unidentified person who died this year of unrelated causes. The discovery of a second transfusion-associated prion infection, experts said, suggests that the risk of mad cow disease to the population is higher than they had realized, because it appears to confirm that eating infected beef is not the only way of spreading...
  • Bloody Shame

    07/22/2004 2:36:21 PM PDT · by neverdem · 11 replies · 567+ views
    Reason ^ | July 2004 | Caroline Waters
    Unnecessary regulations are making blood banks run dry. If you walked into a blood donation center before the HIV crisis, you would have been asked 15 quick questions, then either accepted as a donor or not. Today those questions have burgeoned to almost 50, and the list continues to grow. The extra caution stems from a colossal error that blood bank officials made two decades ago, when they ignored the early warning signs of HIV and failed to implement appropriate screening and cleaning procedures. As a result, America’s blood supply became contaminated and 20,000 people were infected with the deadly...
  • Rare Infection Threatens to Spread in Blood Supply

    11/18/2003 7:03:04 AM PST · by neverdem · 87 replies · 3,246+ views
    NY Times ^ | 11/18/03 | Donald G. McNeil Jr
    A parasitic infection common in Latin America is threatening the United States blood supply, public health experts say. They are especially concerned because there will be no test for it in donated blood until next year at the earliest. The infection, Chagas disease, is still rare in this country. Only nine cases are known to have been transmitted by transfusion or transplant in the United States and Canada in the last 20 years. But hundreds of blood recipients may be silently infected, experts say, and there is no effective treatment for them. After a decade or more, 10 to 30...
  • Tiny Miracle: Unborn Child Receives Rare Blood Transfusion

    04/26/2002 7:07:08 AM PDT · by Former Fetus · 5 replies · 303+ views
    The Pro-Life Infonet ^ | 4/26/02 | S. Ertelt
    Tiny Miracle: Unborn Child Receives Rare Blood Transfusion Sacramento, CA -- Isaac James Melendez is so young he doesn't even have an age yet; he won't be born until July 21 or so. According to the ultrasound pictures, he's a strapping little fellow. And listen to his wonderfully strong and regular heartbeat as picked up and amplified by ultrasound equipment: "VROOM VROOM VROOM VROOM VROOM." Robust as he is, he was on the ultrasound screen at Kaiser Sacramento Medical Center the other day for an emergency procedure to save his life. Isaac's mother, Audrey Melendez, has Rh-negative blood and Isaac...