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Jehovah's Witnesses

"Jehovah's Witnesses" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Members of a religious denomination founded in the United States during the late 19th century in which active evangelism is practiced, the imminent approach of the millennium is preached, and war and organized government authority in matters of conscience are strongly opposed (from American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed). Jehovah's Witnesses generally refuse blood transfusions and other blood-based treatments based on religious belief.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Jehovah's Witnesses" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Jehovah's Witnesses" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 10 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2015
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.