Word: anemia
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...Second Baseman Felix Millan, who made only nine errors all season, gave the A's the first game when he let an easy ground ball slip past his glove. "The ball never bounce," said the Puerto Rican sadly after the 2-1 loss. In view of the anemia that was suddenly afflicting red-blooded A's hitters like Reggie Jackson, Williams could only welcome the gift. Said he: "We'll scrounge all the runs...
...part, the weakness was caused by a loss of muscle tone, which deprived the astronauts of about 20% of their strength after their two months of weightlessness. But NASA doctors also blamed a reduction in the production of red blood cells, which fell off by about 12%. Although "space anemia" was first noticed during early Gemini flights, it is still a puzzle to doctors...
...cats from FeLV-infected households, 177 harbored the virus, and many of these later developed leukemic disease. Of the 148 cats from this group that researchers continued to study, 35, or 23.7%, died within six months-24 of them from leukemia, 11 from an FeLV-related anemia. The normal leukemia incidence for the general cat population over the same period is 18.3 cases per 100,000 animals, or .018% for the group studied. Thus the actual incidence of leukemia was about 900 times greater than expected...
...vacation in London, living at a posh hotel in a style suitable to a vice roy. He falls in love with a lovely, intelligent young woman (Esther Anderson), whose uncle is an ambassador of a newly emergent African state. She is being devoured from within by sicklecell anemia, which happens to be the doctor's specialty. He lectures his small daughter - and the audience - on the disease and even shows microscope slides of the cells swimming dangerously about. The romance flourishes, but so does the disease. Despite the med ical seminars and discussions about black identity, Africa, and medicine...
...extra one, attached to the normal twenty-first chromosome pair. Procedures are under study which would enable doctors to determine accurately the presence of Tay-Sachs disease--a disease which causes blindness, severe retardation, and early death. This disease is common among Jews of northern European origin. Sickle-cell anemia is another race-linked genetic defect that could be identified and eliminated by the application of new techniques...