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...sooner said than done: from the woman's wrist the doctor drew a sample, injected it into a tiny cassette and snapped it into a hand-held blood analyzer. Within two minutes, all readings came up normal. There was no sign of dehydration, anemia, insulin shock or kidney failure. "In a standard emergency room, it would have taken me 30 minutes to an hour to get those test results," Bayne says...
SICKLE-CELL ANEMIA...
Bone-marrow transplants cured SICKLE CELL ANEMIA in three-quarters of youngsters in a recent study. But the radical procedure will probably be reserved for the worst cases because 10% of the patients died...
Researchers expect the technique will be applied to other diseases in perhaps five or 10 years. It holds particular promise for sickle-cell anemia, because finding tissue matches for African Americans (who are affected by the disease more often than any other racial group) has proved, for complex genetic reasons, especially difficult. The technique could also boost the damaged immune systems of AIDS patients, provided scientists first find a way to disrupt the reproductive cycle of the AIDS virus within the transplant candidate. "If the virus could be controlled," says Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg, one of the study's coauthors...
DIED. THOMAS SANDEFUR, 56, Brown & Williamson's ex-chairman who, along with other tobacco chiefs, told Congress in 1994 that he did not believe nicotine was addictive; of aplastic anemia; in Louisville, Kentucky...