Word: anemia
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...statins, they are discovering that the drugs are more effective at preventing heart attacks than anyone expected. It turns out that statins don't just lower cholesterol levels; they also reduce inflammation. Now statins are being tested for their anti-inflammatory effects on Alzheimer's disease and sickle-cell anemia...
...meat in particular is a rich source of iron, which plays an important part in building muscles and healthy blood. Studies of vegetarians have discovered that they risk becoming iron deficient, which can lead to anemia. The B vitamins found in ample quantities in meat are critical for proper energy production...
...contain high levels of lead, since it is often distilled from corn through old car radiators and even older pipes, and over time this can cause blindness, brain damage and death. Emory University toxicologist Brent Morgan, who co-wrote the Emergency Medicine study, has seen health problems like disorientation, anemia, kidney failure and ulcers. He says colleagues in other Southern cities have noted a similar uptick in moonshine-related maladies. But supplies seem as healthy as ever. Virginia officials busted a giant 30,000-gal. operation in May, and Georgia law-enforcement officials have shut down at least four stills...
...Monrovian girl in short braids and a blue and white polka-dot dress. "We have her bed ready in her bedroom. We have her enrolled in her preschool. Her big sister is waiting for her little sister." The Carlsons have used a photograph of Patience - who's suffering from anemia and severe diarrhea, and no longer has the energy she once had - to introduce her to friends and family in Minnesota. It was the Carlsons who put together the picture book for their new child, a kind of window that all the orphans have been peering through. The second...
Founded by Paul Newman in 1988, the non-profit camp in northeastern Connecticut hosts for free each summer more than 1,000 children who have cancer and other life-threatening diseases such as sickle cell anemia, leukemia...