Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pneumococci seem to be gaining the upper hand, medical researchers have developed a powerful new weapon against them. Last week doctors at the University of California in San Francisco reported spectacular success in inoculating a group of 77 vulnerable youngsters with a prototype pneumonia vaccine. All had sickle-cell anemia, a genetic disorder largely confined to blacks that, besides inflicting other damage, impairs the spleen's ability to filter dangerous bacteria out of the blood. Even after two years, Dr. Arthur J. Ammann and his colleagues said, not a single patient had developed a pneumococcus infection; the only reaction from...
Still, physical differences do exist: Orientals are generally smaller than Caucasians (and, incidentally, better gymnasts for it); certain diseases have been shown to be genetically linked to particular groups and races-Tay-Sachs disease among Jews and sickle-cell anemia among blacks. The shapes of eyes and noses vary as widely among the races as do skin colors...
...Although four doctors rotated in taking care of Hughes, his medical condition was appalling. His former 6-ft. 4-in. frame had shrunk three inches, and his weight fluctuated between a high of 130 Ibs. and a cadaverous 90 Ibs. He suffered variously from anemia, arthritis and assorted other ills. Nothing plagued him more than constipation; at one time, he sat on the toilet for 72 straight hours, occasionally propping himself on a chair set next to him so he could support himself while dozing...
...architect of Richard Nixon's 1972 "Southern strategy." Today he eagerly displays to visitors in his office a two-page list of "accomplishments in behalf of blacks." Items: "Assisted Mrs. Victoria DeLee in expediting day-care funds for Dorchester County"; "Cosponsored bill to find a cure for sickle-cell anemia...
Despite lack of significant progress so far, his doctors say Teddy may recover. Insists Boston's Dr. David Nathan, an expert on aplastic anemia and a consultant in Teddy's case: "We're simply going to keep on with this job." Teddy remains cautiously optimistic; he has repeatedly said that he would walk out of confinement to virtually certain death if he thought there was no hope. There is nothing to stop him but a curtain of air-and his will to survive...