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2. List of Supreme Court cases involving Jehovah's Witnesses

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   Doctors sought a blood transfusion, but A.C. and her parents refused on religious grounds; child welfare officials moved to take her into care and a court ordered that she be given the transfusion. The judge said he was satisfied she was competent, but since she was under 16 the judge felt that her competence was immaterial to existing law. [6]

3. Jehovah's Witnesses and blood transfusions - Wikipedia

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   A baptized Witness who unrepentantly accepts a blood transfusion is deemed to have disassociated himself from the group by abandoning its doctrines and is subsequently subject to organized shunning by other members. [10] [12] Certain medical procedures involving blood are specifically prohibited by Jehovah's Witnesses' blood doctrine.

4. The Children Act (film) - Wikipedia

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   Fiona nevertheless leaves, and returns to court. She rules that, as a matter of law as laid out in the introduction of the Children Act 1989, [3] Adam's welfare is the "paramount consideration" and declares that the medical treatment, including blood transfusion, may proceed despite the absence of Adam's consent and that of his parents.

5. Mature minor doctrine - Wikipedia

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   The mature minor doctrine is a rule of law found in the United States and Canada accepting that an unemancipated minor patient may possess the maturity to choose or reject a particular health care treatment, sometimes without the knowledge or agreement of parents, and should be permitted to do so. [1]

6. Neonatal red cell transfusion - Wikipedia

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   Neonates are defined as babies up to 28 days after birth. [1] Most extremely preterm babies (less than 28 weeks) require at least one red cell transfusion; [2] this is partly due to the amount of blood removed with blood samples compared to the baby's total blood volume (iatrogenic anemia) [3] and partly due to anemia of prematurity.

7. File:Blood pressure and glucose screening form.svg - Wikipedia

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   English: A form used in public health screenings for high blood pressure and diabetes mellitus. Blood pressure ranges from Corey Foster et al., ed (2010). The Washington manual of medical therapeutics (33 ed.). Philadelphia, Pa.: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 65. ISBN 1-60831-003-5. Reccomendations were adapted from the same ...