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...four chemicals -- adenine, guanine, thymine and cytosine -- that make up the DNA chains. So far, only about 600 genes have been sequenced. Information from these efforts is expected to help in developing diagnostic tests and even cures for the 3,500 disorders such as cystic fibrosis and sickle-cell anemia that are known to be caused by genetic defects, and those in which heredity has a major influence, including heart disease and cancer...
...than two drinks a day. Pregnant women are cautioned to skip liquor altogether. Other advice: adolescent girls and premenopausal women should increase consumption of calcium-rich foods to guard against osteoporosis, and children and women of childbearing age should be sure to eat foods high in iron to prevent anemia, a condition prevalent in low-income families...
...patients with advanced cancer. Amy Hance, 25, of Bloomington, Ill., reached that stage early this year. Melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, had spread to her liver, spleen, stomach and lungs. The determined Hance opted for experimental IL-2 therapy, even though side effects -- including fever, massive fluid retention, anemia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and heart and lung problems -- had killed several patients...
About one out of twelve black Americans carries a single gene for sickle-cell anemia. That trait, doctors have long believed, is basically benign, since the blood disorder strikes only when two defective genes are present. But a report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine challenges this assumption. In a study of more than 2 million military recruits, doctors at Washington's Armed Forces Institute of Pathology found that sickle-cell carriers run 40 times the normal risk of sudden death when they undergo the rigors of basic training. The danger appears to increase with...
Persephone, whose membership includes students from Boston area colleges, is the only organization of its kind in New England, says Pennie Decas, fundraising coordinator for the Boston branch of Cooley's Anemia Foundation...