Word: anemia
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...side of the ward lie four elderly men who were rushed to Baghdad's biggest hospital, the 12-story, powder blue Saddam Hussein Medical Center, after suffering heart attacks. On the other side are two ailing women as well as a little boy afflicted with sickle-cell anemia. Because of the international blockade against Iraq, Roubayee says, the hospital lacks antibiotics and other medicines necessary to treat the patients. At least one of the men will soon die, he predicts, and the boy may lapse into a coma...
...caring for the millions of people with polio would exceed all the funds that have been spent by the NIH in the past 30 years. In 1955 essentially all children who developed acute leukemia died quickly with an enormous amount of suffering because of infections, because of anemia, because of bleeding tendencies. Today 70% of all children with acute leukemia are cured by combined chemotherapy programs. It is the best success story in the war on cancer that we have...
...have the disturbing example of sickle-cell anemia to prove to us that if we don't include explanations and education and counseling in a screening program, we will end up doing more harm than good. An awful lot of people were found to be sickle-cell carriers, with no significant risk to their own health, but they wound up believing that eventually they would become ill. Insurers canceled policies. It is terrifying to look back on this experience, and a good reason to go slow on screening for cystic fibrosis...
...reactor, levels of radioactivity are still nine times as high as the acceptable limits, according to the local Communist Party chief. Vladimir Lysovsky, a doctor at Narodichi District Central Hospital, contends that in the past 18 months, there has been a dramatic rise in cases of thyroid disease, anemia and cancer. Residents also have begun complaining of fatigue and loss of vision and appetite -- all symptoms of radiation sickness. Worst of all, there has been a startling drop in the immunity level of the entire population. "Healthy people are having trouble getting over their illnesses," Lysovsky notes. And children...
Delaney Smith also noted the play of sophomore Heather Harris, who has been suffering from anemia this year, unbeknownst to her or her coaches...