Word: anemia
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...think you're immune; no one is. It's rather capricious, this academic anemia. The more you study, the more you forget afterwards...
...might be helped by experimental drugs may die while the traditional methods of testing drugs work their slow and cumbersome way. Pressure from AIDS activists has resulted in the FDA's allowing wider use of such experimental AIDS drugs as r-erythropoietin, which is used to treat AIDS- related anemia, before studies have been completed. Compound Q faces much more rigorous testing despite the hint of promise. "It's not a one-shot cure," Delaney warned the packed community meeting. But Bob Barnett, a true believer in his right to receive another dose of Compound Q, leaped to his feet...
...mother freely consumed prescription and street drugs during pregnancy, her drug abuse probably did not extend to crack. Even so, when Rick and Mary Hibbard brought him into their home in Long Beach, Calif., he was a nine-month-old veteran of pneumonia, bronchitis and asthma, so white from anemia he was "almost iridescent," recalls Rick. Now eight, Jimmy still has trouble with some motor skills. But he has demonstrated above-average reading ability...
...circulating within the blood. At the same time, a victim's ravaged immune system can replenish some of its chief defenders, called helper T cells, which may double in number during AZT treatment. Yet the drug has two notorious drawbacks. One is its side effects, which can include severe anemia. But the more bitter issue is its cost. A year's supply for a person who takes twelve capsules a day has run upwards of $8,000. For patients who lack full health insurance or other financial resources, the chance to prolong life seems cruelly out of reach...
...effects of bulimia are psychological. Vomiting damages the digestive track, tears the esophagus, erodes tooth enamel and can lead to anemia...