Word: anemia
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...those genetic variations are immediately life threatening. In fact, most of them have no apparent effect. The variants are not like the mutations most of us learned about in school--alterations that cause entire genes or series of genes to malfunction and that result in diseases like sickle-cell anemia and cystic fibrosis. Instead the changes nutritional geneticists are looking for are more like normal variations in the correct spelling of a word--say, theatre or theater, depending on whether you speak the Queen's English or American. "We all have these variants in our genes," says Ray Rodriguez...
...cell lines.Melton and Eggan will be using skin cells harvested from diabetes patients. The long-term goals of the research will be both academic and clinical, the researchers said.By creating stem cell lines using cells from patients with diseases such as diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and sickle-cell anemia, researchers can “move those patients’ diseases into the petri dish” and more effectively study them, said Daley at the conference.“The fact that these embryonic stem cell lines will carry the genes of that sick person is a remarkable opportunity...
...another set of studies, Dr. Geroge Daly, a professor at Children's Hospital, will use excess embryos from IVF and remove stem cells from them to study blood diseases such as sickle cell anemia and bone marrow disorders. These will not be tailored to individual patients, but could provide valuable information about how these conditions work...
...this much is certain: fibroids cause an awful lot of misery. Although many fibroids remain small and symptomless, the benign tumors can grow to the size of grapefruits or even cantaloupes. Women with large fibroids often experience unrelenting pressure on the bladder and menstrual bleeding heavy enough to cause anemia. Fibroids are the reason for 30% of the 600,000 hysterectomies performed each year in the U.S. and 30,000 myomectomies, surgeries that remove the tumors but leave the uterus intact...
...wards, the beds are filled by patients with AIDS, TB, malaria, typhoid, cholera, malnutrition and anemia. Some will die. Most will be cured. All will be treated with as much care and attention--if not more--as is afforded wealthy patients at Harvard Medical School and Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, where Farmer has joint appointments. He calls this approach the "preferential option for the poor...