Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treating disease, especially emotional disorders, with prolonged sleep. This has not paid off too well, the anonymous authors of the plan conceded. Prolonged, drug-induced sleep "cannot be used as a universal therapeutic measure," partly because sometimes the cure is worse than the disease-it causes fever or anemia...
Helen Maysey was a sickly baby. She had a stubborn anemia that did not respond to treatment with iron and vitamins. By the time she was three, doctors found her spleen enlarged, decided that this versatile organ, which both makes and destroys blood cells, was overdoing the destructive part of its job. Surgeons took out her spleen. That gave only temporary relief, and Helen had to have repeated transfusions to keep her stock of red blood cells anywhere near normal. When she was ten, doctors figured that Helen had about two months to live. That was 17 years...
...hospital, off and on (the hospital figures the cost of all this free care at $36,962.15), and after 1,539 transfusions of blood donated by the Red Cross, Helen Maysey, 27, married Shirley (Red) Andrus, 36, an electrician. Although her disease has many of the earmarks of Mediterranean anemia, which appears in successive generations in Italy and eastern Mediterranean countries, there is no history of this anemia in her family, no evidence whether she would pass it on to her children...
...damage at birth-notably brain hemorrhage and contusions during a difficult delivery, and oxygen starvation (which in its turn may have a multiplicity of causes). About 30% of cerebral palsy is caused, Dr. Perlstein believes, by the mother's illnesses during pregnancy (especially German measles, but also anemia and diabetes) and Rh incompatibility-though this last cause has fallen in frequency from 10% to less than 3%, now that doctors are paying closer attention to pregnant women's blood groups. Finally, 10% of cases result from injuries in childhood...
...never did. Instead, he shrewdly multiplied his fortune by investments (oil, real estate), spent hours avidly watching television. Last July, when he suddenly lost his oldtime pep, he dropped in at Stanford Lane Hospital in San Francisco for a checkup. The doctors first said it was anemia, then spotted leukemia. Mayer entered the U.C.L.A. Medical Center in September, had a series of blood transfusions. There last week, at 72, Louis B. Mayer died. Close by his bedside was his television screen, the only other force that had changed Hollywood as much as he himself had. Headlined the Hollywood Reporter...