Posted on 05/12/2018 1:52:28 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
In 1951, a 14-year-old Australian boy named James Harrison awoke from a major chest operation...alive, thanks in large part to a vast quantity of transfused blood he had received, his father explained. *** After turning 18, Harrison (began) donating whole blood regularly with the Australian Red Cross Blood Service.
Meanwhile, doctors in Australia were struggling to figure out why thousands of births in the country were resulting in miscarriages, stillbirths or brain defects for the babies.
The babies, it turned out, were suffering from Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn, or HDN. The condition most often arises when a woman with an Rh negative blood type becomes pregnant with a baby who has Rh positive blood, and the incompatibility causes the mother’s body to reject the fetus’s red blood cells.
Doctors realized it might be possible to prevent HDN by injecting the pregnant woman with a treatment made from donated plasma with a rare antibody.
Researchers scoured blood banks to see whose blood might contain this antibody — and found a donor in New South Wales by the name of James Harrison. *** Before long, researchers had developed an injection called Anti-D using plasma from Harrison’s donated blood. The first dose was given to a pregnant woman at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in 1967.
Harrison continued donating and his plasma has been used to make millions of Anti-D injections...17 percent of pregnant women in Australia require the anti-D injections, the blood service estimates Harrison has helped 2.4 million babies in the country.
“Every ampul of Anti-D ever made in Australia has James in it,”. *** On Friday it was his last trip to the donation center. At age 81 the blood service had decided Harrison should stop donating to protect his health. *** 1,173 total blood donations in his lifetime.
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A great man.
“Man with the golden arm” is a code for heroin taking.
Soros switches language CONSSTANTLY to keep the population confused,
Not long ago “reds” meant commies.
Now it supposedly means non leftwingers.
With this article Soros has one of his tools, Jeff Bezos and Bezos’ Washington Post attempt a switch with the term “golden arm.”
Pathetic.
Thank you Mr. Harrison. My child and I have benefitted from your gift.
Man with a golden arm was about a junkie.
Better come up with a different nickname
Golden Arm——drugs
A heroin addict
Ahh, it’s time to shoot up this sweet bag of dope into my golden arm....
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Golden%20Arm
Frank Sinatra portrayed a heroin addict in the movie “The Man With The Golden Arm”.
Sad how you have to worry about that thanks to third-wave feminism.
He’s more pro-life than the current usurper of the papal throne.
Funny how little it takes ti disparage and wonderful selfless act by this man. With this mans continued donations thousand of babies were saved and who knows what promises those children lives may now deliver to all mankind. In an aged wherein babies are daily ripped to pieces alive from their mother’s womb and the pieces sold as meat in a butches shop I say God bless this man and no missed chosen word should be spoken to place a shadow on good he has done.
For sure. We all, I like to think, wish we could do something so noble.
Late 60s NBA player Eddie Miles was also called the Man with the Golden Arm in recognition for his shooting touch
A movie with a good score.
So now millions will die for lack of James Harrison’s blood?
I think it is now bioengineered. Called rhoGam (courtesy of my nicu nurse wife)
Isn’t the real story is how many LIVED?
200 other qualified donors in country at time “retired”.
That perfectly describes your post.......Sheesh!
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