Word: anemia
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Hamilton also studied the dangers of monoxide emissions in steel mills, explosive manufacturers' use of poisons and the appearance of spastic anemia in workers who used jackhammers...
Researchers have identified the first effective treatment for sickle cell anemia, the fatal blood disorder that almost exclusively affects black Americans, the National Institutes of Health announced today. The drug, hydroxyurea, already in use as a cancer treatment, reduced sickle cell attacks so dramatically that NIH ended its trials four months early and today notified 5,000 doctors of the treatment. There is still no cure for the disease, but the new treatment will ameliorate the painful symptoms of sickle cell anemia, which often lead to hospitalization. About 8 percent of black Americans carry the gene that causes sickle cell...
...Felbamate, a drug introduced last year to control epileptic seizures, has begun to show dangerous side effects: 21 patients out of about 100,000 users have developed a rare blood disease called aplastic anemia; four have died. The FDA and the drug's manufacturers have urged doctors to begin withdrawing patients from the medication, which is sold under the trade name Felbatol...
Doctors worked overtime trying to calm the nerves of panicky epilepsy patients after the Food and Drug Administration announced that a popular new drug had been linked to two fatal cases of aplastic anemia. Researchers say that the odds of contracting the rare form of anemia are about 1 in 5,000 and that the drug, called Felbatol, could still prove to be the best choice for some patients...
...Patients with sickle-cell anemia are living longer because of more aggressive treatment. Their life expectancy has risen from a median age of 14 in 1973 to 42 for men and 48 for women. Scientists have identified several risk factors, which may lead to new and better treatments...