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DIED. Dan Dailey, 61, lanky, affable actor and song-and-dance star; of anemia, after an artificial hip inserted last year became infected; in Hollywood. A teen-age vaudevillian, Dailey appeared on the Broadway musical stage before making such movies as Mother Wore Tights (1947) and When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948). From 1969 to '71 he starred in the TV series The Governor...
...theoretically possible to detect such illnesses as sickle-cell anemia and cystic fibrosis," Orkin said. "All you have to find out is what to look for in the gene...
Presently the method of identification can detect two types of anemia, alphathalassemia and beta-delta-thalassemia. The most common type of anemia in the country, beta-thalassemia (Cooley's anemia) cannot be detected...
...variety of human diseases, notably cardiovascular disorders and cancer. Two important studies involve examination of the rhesus fetus while it is still in the womb, letting the pregnancy continue and checking hemoglobin changes that occur about the time of birth, which may be significant in relation to sickle-cell anemia...
...Rockefeller group used equal inventiveness in tackling thalassemia (Cooley's anemia), which afflicts an estimated 3 million people globally-most of them of Mediterranean and Asian origin. Victims of this genetic disorder can usually be kept alive by regular blood transfusions. But because the body is not easily able to rid itself of the iron added by repeated blood donations, it accumulates to such an extent that by the age of 20 the heart, liver and other organs can be threatened. Looking for a way to remove the excess iron, the Rockefeller scientists turned to bacteria and fungi...