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Institutionalization of Protestantism as a way out

Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2005
The study of the current state and tendencies of the development of the traditional trends of late Protestantism in Ukraine - Baptism, Adventism and Pentecostalism, as well as Jehovah's Witnesses during 1999-2005 made it possible, in our opinion, to be ...
Petro Yarotskiy, Yu.Ye. Reshetnikov
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Staged open surgery for bicuspid aortic valve regurgitation and coarctation of the aorta in a Jehovah’s witness

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2020
Background Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse allogeneic blood transfusions, which makes cardiovascular surgery challenging. Surgeons must minimize blood and fluid loss within one procedure.
Kohei Sumi, Shigehiko Yoshida, Yoshitaka Okamura, Tomokazu Nakamura   +3 more
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A single-institution experience of performing bloodless transplant in Jehovah’s Witness patients

Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Therapy, 2019
Objective/Background: Autologous stem cell transplant has been shown to prolong survival in multiple myeloma (MM). A common complication of the pre-transplant conditioning chemotherapy is severe multi-lineage cytopenias, resulting in significant ...
Alexander Coltoff, Aditya Shreenivas, Solmaz Afshar, Amir Steinberg   +3 more
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Les Témoins de Jéhovah : un mouvement religieux aux caractéristiques d’un mouvement social

Études Caribéennes, 2014
This article observes that Jehovah’s Witnesses share similarities with a social movement. The writer uses the descriptions that sociologists such as Alain Touraine and Herbert Blumer give of social movements.
Christophe Zamord
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Outcomes in cardiac surgery in 500 consecutive Jehovah's Witness patients: 21 year Experience

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2012
Background Refusal of heterogenic blood products can be for religious reasons as in Jehovah's Witnesses or otherwise or as requested by an increasing number of patients.
Vaislic Claude D, Dalibon Nicolas, Ponzio Oliver, Ba Maguette, Jugan Eric, Lagneau Franck, Abbas Philippe, Olliver Yves, Gaillard Didier, Baget Francois, Sportiche Michel, Chedid Antoine, Chaoul Georges, Maribas Philippe, Dupuy Christiane, Robine Bruno, Kasanin Nicolas, Michon Herve, Ruat Jean-Michel, Habis Michel, Bouharaoua Touhami   +20 more
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Testemunhas de Jeová: contra o facismo, em defesa da democracia?

Das Amazônias
This article aims to reflect on the boundaries, understood both in physical and symbolic terms, that shape the political stance of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Osorio Vieira Borges Junior
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Recombinant Human Erythropoietin Therapy for a Jehovah's Witness Child With Severe Anemia due to Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome [PDF]

Korean Journal of Pediatrics, 2016
Patients with hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) can rapidly develop profound anemia as the disease progresses, as a consequence of red blood cell (RBC) hemolysis and inadequate erythropoietin synthesis.
Da Eun Woo, Jae Min Lee, Yu Kyung Kim, Yong Hoon Park   +3 more
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Intercultural Competences in Health Care - Jehovah's Witnesses

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2019
After Poland's accession to the European Union, borders were opened and migrations from many culturally different countries intensified, which led to an increase in immigrants and refugees assimilating in Poland.
Elżbieta Bernaciak, Paulina Farbicka, Aleksandra Jaworska-Czerwińska, Renata Szotkiewicz   +3 more
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Successful treatment of severe anemia using erythropoietin in a Jehovah Witness with non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Hematology Reports, 2014
Blood transfusion many times works in a life-saving way when a patient is facing a critical situation. However, some patients, such as Jehovah’s Witnesses, may refuse their administration because it opposes to their religion beliefs. Thus, clinicians are
Alexandra Agapidou, Sophia Vakalopoulou, Theodosia Papadopoulou, Cristina Chadjiaggelidou, Vasileia Garypidou   +4 more
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Visas Versus Refugees

Refuge, 1986
Canada has been quick to require visas of people coming from right-wing dictatorships to claim refugee status here, but slow to stop the notorious abuse by thousands of "Jehovah's Witnesses" claimants from Portugal.
Dan Heap
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