Word: anemia
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...black Buick station wagon. Despite his showy public style, he leads a rather simple private life: his favorite recreation being a game of basketball on his backyard court. His frenetic pace on the road is occasionally slowed slightly by a mild case of sickle-cell anemia, a hereditary blood disease that affects blacks...
...clergy's main concern is the ethical justification for making changes in the germline, or sex cells, which regulates the transmission of inheritable traits. Scientists are now working to change the genes in these cells that create such inherited maladies as Tay-Sachs disease and sickle-cell anemia. The healthy traits would be passed on indefinitely to succeeding generations. However ideal that goal might seem, signers of the petition to Congress fear that the engineering changes could later cause unforeseen problems. One example: eradication of sickle-cell anemia genes might make an individual more susceptible to malaria. Other clergymen...
Many of them stand to be disappointed. In general, sales are better on both coasts then they are in the Midwestern middle, the "rust bowl," hardest hit by joblessness and industrial anemia. Almost nowhere, though, are sales truly brisk. Unusually warm weather in the East, which has produced temperatures in the springlike 70s, has hurt them in two ways. It has cut into sales of winter clothing. It also made Christmas seem not so near, reducing what Economist Alan Greenspan calls the "sense of urgency" needed to press people into stores...
...National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Md., the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, is based on experiments on baboons. It has been used in only a handful of human patients suffering from severe thalassemia or sickle cell anemia. These blood disorders result from defects in the genes that control production of hemoglobin, the substance that carries oxygen in the blood. In essence, thalassemia victims cannot form healthy red blood cells on their own and require periodic transfusions; sickle cell patients are subjected to painful blood vessel blockages...
...Philippines, chloramphenicol, a formidable antibiotic, is prescribed for infections ranging from flu to acne. The standard drug guide used by Filipino doctors does not carry warnings of a possible side effect: a deadly form of anemia...