Word: anemia
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...There is a great need for compatible blood supplies because the people inflicted with sickle-cell anemia are usually minorities," said Braswell...
Harvard students are being encouraged to participate in a May 11 blood drive for victims of sickle-cell anemia...
Sickle-cell anemia, a genetic disease, generally strikes people of African, southern Mediterranean and Asian descent. There is no known cure...
...Jerod Swallow. Her father was stabbed to death in his Michigan home, allegedly by her mentally disturbed brother. Speed skater Kristen Talbot learned it when she risked her physical ability to compete by giving a bone-marrow transplant last Jan. 11 to her brother Jason, gravely ill with aplastic anemia. Luger Cammy Myler, already chagrined at the dislocated shoulder last September that dimmed her medal chances, felt her injury diminish in meaning when her brother and sporting mentor Tim was hospitalized for potentially fatal colon cancer...
That incident inspired Anderson. "If Edsall thought it was an interesting idea," he recalls, "then by God it was an interesting idea. I decided to figure out how to cure sickle-cell anemia by changing genes...