Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such over-the-counter pain relievers as aspirin and APCs have long been recognized. But evidence that these familiar remedies are not necessarily harmless in all circumstances has accumulated only recently. For reasons not yet understood, people who take excessive doses over a number of years may incur anemia or kidney damage...
...that ran as high as ten tablets a day for 14 years. In a two-year period, 36 patients appeared at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary with kidney disease and "a history of long-continued and excessive intake of analgesics." Besides their kidney damage, 30 of the patients were suffering from anemia, six had peptic ulcers and twelve had suffered gastrointestinal bleeding...
...given transfusions of that type. In reality, her blood was group 0; she suffered permanent kidney damage. - Twin boys were born to a woman in Alabama whose blood had twice been typed as Rh-positive; actually it was negative, and the twins died of a blood-destroying anemia. Indeed, of 328 blood-disorder deaths in the newborn studied in California, 34.5% were associated with laboratory errors, and many could have been prevented. - A newspaperman, 26, was being treated with anticoagulants for phlebitis. A laboratory reported that his blood had a normal clotting time, so the doctor kept up the treatment...
...Vietnamese time bomb," as it has been grimly nicknamed, can be effectively treated by Chloromycetin. The drug, which is used against typhoid, must be given in large doses for at least a month. The prolonged period is essential but not without risk of side effects (including possibly fatal anemia). Since little or no effect is noted at the beginning of treatment, the doctor must be confident enough of his diagnosis to continue the dosage...
...Alley in 1913 when opera's great Caruso recorded Your Eyes Have Told Me and Al Jolson belted Tennessee to popularity, but is best remembered for his rollicking K-K-K-Katy, which became the barracks and marching favorite of World War I's doughboys; of hemolytic anemia; in St. Petersburg...