Word: anemia
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...receives any prenatal care at all during the vital first three months of pregnancy. The combination of inadequate medical care and poor diet contributes to a number of problems during pregnancy, says Dr. John Niles of Columbia Hospital for Women in Washington: "Teenagers are 92% more likely to have anemia, and 23% more likely to have complications related to prematurity, than mothers aged 20 to 24." All of this adds up to twice the normal risk of delivering a low-birth-weight baby (one that weighs under 5.5 lbs.), a category that puts an infant in danger of serious mental...
...weeks. There's been a lot of news lately about the blood that remains in umbilical cords after they are cut; this fluid is a rich source of stem cells that can be used to treat a variety of diseases, from leukemia to sickle-cell anemia. Two weeks ago, the New England Journal of Medicine reported that children with a fatal genetic disorder called Krabbe's disease had been saved with stem cells from cord blood. And last week the House of Representatives, struggling with a hotly contested bill that would loosen restrictions on embryonic-stem-cell research, easily passed...
...genes may help provide answers to such fundamental questions as what switches DNA on and off, and how a single cell blossoms into a complex organism like a mouse or a human being. Someday the new technology could yield treatments for diseases such as cancer, thalassemia and sickle-cell anemia. In short, an increasing number of biologists and geneticists agree, the field of transgenic mice is hot. Says Rudolf Jaenisch, a molecular biologist with the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass.: "Everybody wants to jump on the bandwagon because it's such an interesting wagon to ride...
WHAT ABOUT YOUR HEALTH PROBLEMS? YOU HAVE HAD HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, DIABETES, PROSTATE CANCER AND ANEMIA. I don't have any health problems. I have health issues. My diabetes and high blood pressure are under better control than they've ever been. I take my medication on time, watch my diet, eat sugar and sweets in moderation. I'm not going to be as active as I was. I'm 68 years old. I can't run as fast as I used to run, but my mind is as good as it's ever been...
...advance the cause.) And once the science reaches a certain point, most legislators will undergo a conversion. It's one thing to oppose research that still looks like a barely conceivable long shot. It's another thing to stare at a child with juvenile diabetes or sickle-cell anemia and tell him he can't get a cure developed with embryos by a biotech firm in California...