Google Blog publishes the story of Howard and Melissa, new parents of twins who used Google Mobile Search to save their babies from a dangerous, unnecessary blood transfusion.


Google Blog has published the story of Howard and Melissa, of Florida, new parents of twins. According to the doctors one of the twins needed a blood transfusion and that too from a stranger as his hemoglobin levels had dropped from 14 to 7.

The shocked parents report:
“We were shaken and quite upset,” Howard recalls. “Armed with only a cell phone – and a very low battery – I was able to Google [hemoglobin “premature infant”] and found a medical journal article claiming that it’s perfectly normal for preemies to have their hemoglobin levels drop to 7 between the first and third months of life, and apparently this is especially true with twins.” He showed the mobile screen citing this fact to the neonatalogists, who went off to research the issue for a couple of hours. They returned, says, Howard, “and sheepishly admitted that our son was indeed fine – no treatment was necessary.”

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