Word: anemia
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...breakthrough will allow scientists to produce large quantities of most genes, aiding research on thalassemia, a form of anemia, and similar genetic diseases, one of the reasearchers said yesterday...
Gleason said that in spite of repeated requests from the city, Harvard has continued to use the Thorndike name, associated with Nobel-prize winning research on pernicious anemia, for its own research in Beth Israel...
...needed resiliency to survive. Her youth was permanently maimed by a suffocating, overambitious mother who called her only "Little Precious." Her puerile "maturity" was filled with weeks of chain-smoking and drinking straight gin. Carson was hardly into her 20s when she suffered the first of several strokes. Anemia, pleurisy, a rheumatic heart and cancer followed in lethal succession. She was afflicted with a melodramatic bisexuality, a condition that made her fall in love with husbands and wives. Like the protagonist in her story A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud, she could say: "Son, I can love anything." Nevertheless, Biographer...
Death Rate. The health dividends from the federal investment were even greater. Delta blacks had long been plagued by many poverty-related ailments, from iron-deficiency anemia to parasitic infections like hookworm. The hospital alone could not significantly reduce the incidence of these ailments, but it did help those who came to it. Although the death rate for babies born in the region is more than 35 per 1,000 live births (among the nation's highest), there were only five deaths among the 1,047 babies born last year at Mound Bayou's community hospital...
...last year, doctors used some 8.8 million units of blood to give transfusions to patients undergoing extensive surgery, suffering from injuries, hemophilia or such diseases as leukemia and aplastic anemia. Because voluntary donations fall short of the amount that hospitals need, much of the blood used for transfusions came from Skid Row derelicts or drug addicts who sold it for the price of a bottle or a fix. Many of those blood peddlers had hepatitis. Thus every year an estimated 17,000 cases of hepatitis result from transfused blood. One in twenty of these patients eventually dies from the debilitating...