Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, they estimate more than 120,000 children between six months and six years of age suffer from iron deficiency anemia due to inadequate housing assistance. They also estimate exposure to cockroaches causes 17,849 hospitalizations each year for asthma among four to nine year olds...
...growing stalks and puts it in a special metal grinder to get the juice. But this isn't just any grass, this is wheat grass, and it can perform miracles. It is a (take a deep breath) body building, energizing, appetite suppressing, antibiotic, deodorizing concoction that also helps anemia. But, the other bartender warned, it does make you feel a little nauseous...
...caused by a parasitic protozoan. The disease is transmitted by the bite of a sand fly that is about one-tenth of an inch long and is ubiquitous in certain woodlands. Once inside the body, the kala-azar protozoan invades and weakens the immune system, causing fever, weight loss, anemia and enlargement of the spleen. If the disease is untreated, a secondary infection, such as pneumonia or malaria, usually brings painful death...
LIFEBLOOD Children with sickle-cell anemia who are at high risk for stroke can benefit from a new treatment. Monthly blood transfusions reduce their rate of stroke...
...difficult to stick to the prescribed regimen. Yet if patients skip even a single dose, the small amounts of HIV that remain in their bodies can become resistant and spread anew. Most suffer side effects in the first few months that include severe diarrhea, muscle spasms and anemia...