Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 3, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Health Winnipeg free july a1 f blood shortage feared in Reuter Washington t the blood Supply could have one of its worst shortages in years this summer due to corporate Down sizing and a Lack of donations from baby Boomers and generation a blood Bank executive said were not declaring a National blood said Jim executive director of the nonprofit americas blood were trying to prepare you for the fact that this sum Mer May be one of the worst that we have seen in Many summer is customarily a time when blood donations but this season could see even deeper shortages because of societal Macpherson citing corporate downsizing As the primary reason for current were seeing increased resistance from corporate America to blood Dona blood donation costs them Money and Treyve figured it it costs them Money because its a loss of productivity and they have to give the employees time off to do he corporations Are not ruling out blood drives but Are doing fewer of said whose organization represents blood donation centres that provide about 45 per cent of the blood the red Cross provides approximately 45 per cent and the rest is provided by Macpherson a generational shift has also Cut into the Stream of donated he pointing to the shrinking group of Loyal donors known As the second world War there there becoming too old to there dying he said at a younger generations do not have the same Devotion to the culture of Dona he add to that the fact that blood Banks refuse donations from people with Var ious risk notably for aids and even As Supply demand has been increasing in recent largely because of More sophisticated pro such As those for cancer treatments and Bone marrow trans which use a lot of some procedures considered to be elective surgeries can be delayed but emergencies the worst scenario for this summer is the bus that gets hit by the tractor trailer and the blood int on the shelves to take care of the Macpherson severed Penis can be doctors say Canadian press Vancouver doctors say it should be possible to rebuild a Penis for a Man whose Organ was chopped off and flushed Down a its believed the father of six was attacked with a meat Cleaver while sleeping As part of what police suspect was a love the 40yearold unidentified Man is recovering in a Vancouver Hospital and is expected to be released in five or six reconstructive surgery could allow him to have a partly functioning experts said you can give him something that looks like said Oliver an associate pro Fessor in sexual you can give him something work something you can pee by stripping muscle and skin from other parts of the mans surgeons should be Able to create a pseudo the procedure is called a Phal the bad news is you cant bring Back sensation because he has lost the nerve endings in the said Robi an academic at the University of British his libido stays he will have to learn to get satisfaction in other ways not the mechanical ways so popular to so Many that appeared the consensus among plastic psychiatrists and others commenting on the Case that the talk of British police have arrested and charged the mans wife Kim Phuong 37 with aggravated say the prognosis is i guess Anne Dren Nan Hes going to live but obviously theres no Hope of reattach or because the item was flushed Down the Vancouver general Hospital refused to comment on the mans observers said the routine now would be for specialists to assess what remains of the mans genitals and decide what to do i study rules out cancer cause Boston the most exacting study Ever of Trinity and cancer found no solid evidence that living near voltage lines causes childhood As some have the researchers say their work is the strongest indication yet that this much discussed concern is ground two other Large studies coming out within the next year in British Columbia and England could help set the the Issue for fears about exposure to magnetic Fields from High voltage electrical refutes High voltage lines link lines were first raised in the late since several studies have looked into the with mixed some have suggested that exposure might triple the risk of acute Lymphoblast in the most common child Hood the latest study was designed to overcome Many of the shortcomings raised by critics of the earlier All in this study indicates that if there is an association Between magnetic Fields and it is very it makes one wonder How much More Money we want to throw at this because basically we cant see anything said Lawrence director of the Institute for environmental orgy at Michigan state Fischer headed an advisory com Mittee for the million us which was conducted by the Al cancer Institute and published in today Issue of the new England journal of the study was based on 638 Dren under age is with acute Lym prob taste the researchers cheeked the youngsters exposure to magnetic Fields ated by nearby Power lines and pared it with that of 620 healthy the researchers measured noetic Fields in All the houses where the children had lived for five years before the discovery of their As Well As in the Homes where their mothers lived while we found no evidence that magnetic Field Levels in the Home increased the risk for childhood said Martha who directed the health minister plans to defy enforce ban on female circumcision save save associated press Cairo Egypt health minis Ter plans to enforce a ban on the ritual cutting of girls even though a court has rejected health minister Ismail Sallam outlawed the centuries old practice in july last a court ruled the ban saying doctors and other health workers could perform the if sometimes in an interview with the Almus Sawar weekly distributed Sallam questioned the courts Juris diction in ruling on a medical matter that has bad Side effects on the ritual also known As female ranges from Cut Ting the Hood of the Clitoris to removing it entirely along with tissue surrounding the vaginal 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