transfusion
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Waldorf had spelled out the catch-22 in her journal that morning: “If I need a blood transfusion and it stabilizes my condition, they cannot induce. If my temp continues to spike then they can induce.”
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
A baby who contracted a virus when he was still in the womb is thought to be the youngest in the UK to receive a life-saving, rare blood transfusion procedure.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
When Beatrice Jones was told at the age of 11 she needed a potentially life-saving blood transfusion, she felt "a wave of nausea" as her "whole world suddenly collapsed".
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
“I got my blood transfusion when I married my wife.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
But I don’t require him, he’s no transfusion.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
He spent nine days on a ventilator and 18 days on dialysis, during which time doctors gave him blood, platelet and plasma transfusions.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
Erin had a "catastrophic" haemorrhage and needed 13 blood transfusions.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
The child, the complaint says, required dialysis and blood transfusions and suffered seizures and decreased pancreatic function.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
In the 1920s, Soviet polymath Alexander Bogdanov’s experiments with rejuvenating blood transfusions attracted the Kremlin’s attention—before he died as a consequence of his self-inflicted treatments, at the age of 55.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Darwin's “gemmule” theory—that hereditary instructions were thrown adrift by all cells and then floated in the blood, like a million messages in bottles—suggested that blood transfusions might transmit gemmules and thereby alter heredity.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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