Word: anemia
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...associate professor at Harvard, Herbert set out to dispel prevailing notions about the causes of anemia, a blood disorder most commonly caused by a lack of iron...
...started in October 1961, and 133 days later he had lost 26 pounds and developed megaloblastic anemia, a condition that causes weakness, fatigue, headache, loss of appetite and diarrhea...
Disease is always a problem when fish are raised in close quarters. After a 1999 outbreak of infectious salmon anemia in fish farms in Scotland, all the farm-grown fish within 25 miles were slaughtered. A similar anemia outbreak in Maine two years ago led to the destruction of more than 2.5 million fish--and to federal insurance payouts totaling $16 million. "The more aquaculture there is," warns Callum Roberts, senior lecturer in marine conservation at the University of York in England, "the more disease there will...
...humans, were found by European Union inspectors in shrimp from Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. According to Wang Sihe, an expert with the Jiangsu Seawater Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese shrimp farms have mixed fish food with antibiotics and dumped it into fish ponds. Chloramphenicol, an antibiotic that can cause fatal anemia in humans, has also been used...
There are side effects. Some patients developed fevers, rashes and anemia. There's also a theoretical possibility, says Dr. Kevan Herold, principal investigator at Columbia University's medical school, that the treatment will increase the risk of developing cancer. But for now, researchers are sufficiently encouraged to launch another trial that will test whether repeating the two-week treatments every six or 12 months makes a difference. There are also plans to try the antibody treatment on a kind of autoimmune arthritis that develops in people with psoriasis. (The treatment is not expected to work on Type 2 diabetes, which...