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Are you aware that if you are in a very bad car accident and needed blood that you could not be given the real thing? I certainly was not aware of this fact until I watched the latest episode of 20/20.

A company called Northfield Labs who seems oblivious to human rights were given permission two years ago to run with their experiment. It is a new experimental blood substitute called Polyheme. It goes like this; Accident, then paramedics. Once you are in the ambulance, the paramedic opens a prepackaged envelope that is sort of a lottery game. Depending on what it says they will give you the clear liquid IV or the fake blood. All without informing you of a thing. You could bypass this of course if you were wearing a blue wrist band that said you did not want to be one of their guinea pigs.

However it’s funny about the wrist band considering probably 90% of us have never heard of the program so how in the heck are we supposed to be wearing the wristband? Also once they give you the black man-made whatever the heck it is, they must give it to you for 12 straight hours so you can’t even expect to get real blood once you reach the hospital. After that a family member must ask to put you on human blood, if you not, ie. coma patient. Once again, how can they if they have no idea you are being given an experimental liquid?

This could be a new breakthrough in health and science and I’m sure organ transplants were viewed as weird when first brought up but the key thing here is that we have no say with what they do to us. That is the very definition of unethical, but the company can’t seem to understand and neither does the FDA.

To opt out of this study simply to here http://www.northfieldlabs.com/contact.html or to any hospital that is participating in this study and ask for the blue bracelet.

Below are the cities and hospitals that are part of the study:

California
UC San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, Calif.; No longer recruiting
Scripps Mercy, San Diego, Calif.; No longer recruiting

Colorado
Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colo.

Delaware
Christiana Hospital, Newark, Del.

Georgia
Medical Center of Central Georgia, Macon, Ga.

Illinois
Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Ill.

Indiana
Wishard Memorial Hospital, Indianapolis, Ind.
Methodist Hospital of Indiana, Indianapolis, Ind.

Kansas
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.

Kentucky
University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Ky.

Michigan
Detroit Receiving Hospital, Detroit, Mich.
Sinai Grace Hospital, Detroit, Mich.

Minnesota
The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

New York
Albany Medical Center, Albany, N.Y.; Suspended

North Carolina
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.

Ohio
MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio; Suspended
University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton, Ohio

Pennsylvania
Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, Penn.; No longer recruiting
St. Luke’s Regional Resource Trauma Center, Bethlehem, Penn.
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Penn.

Tennessee
University of Tennessee-Memphis, Memphis, Tenn.
Johnson City Medical Center, Johnson City, Tenn.; Suspended

Texas
Memorial-Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas; No longer recruiting
Memorial-Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas; No longer recruiting
University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas
Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam, Houston, Texas

Utah
University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah

Virginia
Sentara Norfolk Hospital, Norfolk, Va.; No longer recruiting
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, Va.
Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Va.; Suspended

West Virginia
West Virginia University/Jon Michael Moore Trauma Center, Morgantown, West Va.

Source: 20/20

Marsha James wrote this on July 8th, 2006 and filed it under Healthy Living, Women's Health, Men's Health |