- Friday
- April 19th, 2024
ROME – “In principle, being able not to transfuse is the best thing there can be for anyone. If blood loss control is done, the metabolic homeostasis, which indicates the general internal condition of the...
Jehovah's Witness prisoner of conscience 71-year-old Shamil Khakimov has again been denied urgently needed medical treatment in a specialised hospital, after a closed court hearing in his prison. The repeated denial of medical treatment is...
When the Omicron variant started emerging around the country, Registered Nurse Currine Smith flashed back to the despair she felt at the beginning of the pandemic. Now entering the third year of COVID, she describes...
IN SUPPORT of patient-centered care, the Jehovah’s Witnesses is working with healthcare professionals and hospitals throughout the country to provide information about nonblood clinical strategies that are acceptable to the beliefs of its patients. [caption...
KATHMANDU, Nepal—Jehovah’s Witnesses from Bangladesh, Germany, India, Japan, Switzerland, and the United States are coordinating their efforts to help victims of the devastating earthquake that hit Nepal on April 25, 2015, and killed thousands, including one...
Doctors Letter in Medicine Magazine A 28-year-old woman was transferred to our hospital at 27 + 6/40, G5P2, with pre-eclampsia. Acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL) with disseminated intravascular coagulation was diagnosed The patient was a Jehovah's Witness...
DOCTORS were forced to let a pregnant woman and her unborn child die in hospital after the mother refused a blood transfusion because she was a Jehovah’s Witness.The tragic and avoidable case in Sydney has...
Five people who under the guise of religious belief refused to donate blood to an anaemic family member are under police custody in Mangochi after hospital officials sought for their intervention in order to save...
NEW YORK—As the deadly Ebola outbreak devastates West Africa, Jehovah’s Witnesses continue to proactively educate their members about the disease. Upon learning that the Ebola virus had been found in Guinea and had quickly spread...
MOSCOW, March 25 (RAPSI) - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) communicated a vast collection of complaints this month to Russia in connection with the treatment of Jehovah’s Witnesses throughout the country.Russia and the applicants...
A volunteer group of Jehovah's Witness doctors left Manila Tuesday to assist victims of the typhoon in Tacloban, Samar and Leyte. They carried nearly 200kg of medical supplies including antibiotics. We wish them much success...
THE events of September 11, 2001, in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania will be indelibly impressed on the minds of millions, if not billions, of the world’s inhabitants. Where were you when you saw...
A recent study suggests that Jehovah's Witnesses are on to something. — In the Archives of Internal Medicine, doctors from the Cleveland Clinic reported last month that Witnesses who underwent cardiac surgery without a blood...
Jehovah's Witnesses base their refusal of blood transfusions on verses in several books of the Bible. Because North Sider Charles Taze Russell's teachings were the basis for those beliefs, it seems appropriate that Allegheny General...
QUITO – At least 27 people died and 30 others were injured Sunday in a bus crash in the northern Ecuadorian province of Imbabura, said Victor Bazantes, with the fire department in the city of...
The High Court has granted a Dublin maternity hospital orders allowing it to perform, if required, an emergency blood transfusion to the unborn child of a Jehovah's Witnesses couple who is at risk of being...