transfusion
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Tests revealed she had severe anemia, prompting a life-saving blood transfusion from another eagle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
The next day, the video shows care staff anesthetizing Jackie for the blood transfusion and notes she was stronger and more alert the next day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Another died after being given a blood transfusion.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
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
She got one blood transfusion after another because her kidneys could no longer filter the toxins from her blood, leaving her nauseated from the poison of her own body.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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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
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
Doctrine forbids Jehovah's Witnesses, as Jones was then, from receiving blood transfusions in almost all circumstances.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 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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