Every citizen in Canada is guaranteed specific democratic and legal rights which are set out in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. However, in the case of Bethany Hughes, a sixteen-year old girl who refused blood transfusions due to certain religious beliefs, and then was given dozens of b...

Blood transfusion A blood transfusion is the removing of blood or blood blood-based products from the blood stream an inserting it into another circulatory system to replenish lost or damaged blood. blood transfusions can be extremely dangerous when not held in the correct environment with trained ...

AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS disease is at present a sentence of slow but inevitable death. I've already lost one friend to AIDS. I may soon lose others. My own sexual behavior and that of many of my friends has been profoundly altered by it. There currently is neither a cure, no...

The AIDS Epidemic in India India, being one of the most populated countries in the world, is suffering due to its poverty and lack of health care, allowing AIDS to rapidly spread among the region. AIDS – the acquired immuno deficiency syndrome, is spread by a virus called human immuno deficie...

Why Blood Types Matter When Europeans first experimented with blood transfusions in the 17th century, so many patients died that the procedure was outlawed in England, France, and Italy. It is said that the Incas in South America began transfusing blood much earlier and that fewer deaths resulted. I...