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...four years, the list of approved drugs for AIDS patients began and ended with AZT. The drug, also called zidovudine, can extend a patient's life-span, but not everyone can tolerate its side effects, which may include nausea and severe anemia. Now, after billions of dollars of research and constant pressure from AIDS activists, the Food and Drug Administration has bypassed some of its usual requirements to approve another medication, didanosine, known...
Even more provocative is a new area of research that combines the techniques of in vitro fertilization with the latest advances in genetic screening. Abnormalities like sickle-cell anemia or cystic fibrosis are present in the genetic code from the moment of conception. Since embryos in their earliest stages are fairly forgiving -- they can lose a cell or two without impairing their subsequent development -- it is theoretically possible to remove a cell from, say, a 16-cell embryo, test it for a suspected defect, and get the answer before that embryo is inserted into the uterus for implantation...
...their closest living relatives. It has assisted the U.S. military in identifying the remains of soldiers who died during Operation Desert Storm. It is beginning to help physicians detect small numbers of cancer cells circulating in the bloodstream and make prenatal diagnoses of genetic diseases such as sickle- cell anemia, as well as ensure better matches between organ donors and transplant recipients...
...Brad Curry of Lanesville, Ind., first lifted the hands of tiny daughter Natalie, their hearts clutched. The baby's left thumb was missing, and her right thumb was useless. The radius bone was missing from the infant's left arm. The doctors' diagnosis was devastating: Fanconi's anemia. Unless Natalie received a new immune system from transplanted stem cells, the units from which all blood cells derive, she faced a short life of severe anemia and possible retardation...
...called APC pills, the now discontinued pick-me-ups that also contained aspirin and caffeine. Although phenacetin is still available primarily by prescription in some European nations, including Germany, Belgium and France, it has been banned in the U.S. since 1983 because of its suspected links to anemia and kidney disease...