Word: anemia
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...four experienced impairment of their immune systems in the weeks following surgery, and all suffered from some form of infection, ranging from urinary-tract problems to pneumonia. Experience with the four patients has also shown that the artificial heart batters the red blood cells, causing a form of anemia. As a result, said DeVries, "if you have an artificial heart, you can expect to have blood transfusions once or twice a month...
...Hill, Harvard, and Martha's Vineyard, it is so consistently picturesque you almost expect to see Whistler's name in the credits. The main problem with Ivory's Europeans were the Europeans themselves, who were about as scandalous as an invasion of nannies. The Bostonians, thankfully, sheds the genteel anemia of its precursor. Prawer Jhabvala's screenplay, and the memorable cast--Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, Linda Hunt and Madeleine Potter--are responsible for the success...
...doted on by her Italian immigrant father, a prosperous restaurateur. During her first year he celebrated her birthday every month, lavishing dolls and frilly dresses on the little girl. When he died of a heart attack, Ferraro, then eight, was devastated. She was gravely ill with anemia for a year. Facing reduced circumstances, her mother Antonetta moved Geraldine and her brother Carl (now with New York City's human resources administration) to the South Bronx and took a job in the garment district crocheting beads on dresses. Urged on by her mother, Ferraro won successive scholarships to Marymount School...
Miller, a nurse, enrolled at the K-School after four years as associate director of Scottsdale (Arizona) Memorial Hospital's nursing division. She has published articles, on Black American child-rearing practices, sickle cell anemia, and the academic hiring and tenure process...
RECOVERING. Edward M. Kennedy, 51, Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, after hospitalization in Washington, D.C.; from a bleeding duodenal ulcer, anemia, viral hepatitis and dehydration; and Rose Kennedy, 93, doyenne of the Kennedy clan; from a viral infection; both at the family's home in Palm Beach...