Word: anemia
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Historically, sickle-cell anemia has been an unheralded killer. It does not occur in dramatic epidemics. Its victims in the U.S. are mostly blacks, and they generally receive less medical attention than whites. The malady affects the red blood cells, which normally are spherical. When the anemia victim is under any stress that reduces the oxygen supply in his blood, his red cells elongate into firm gel-like crescents ("sickles") that block narrow capillaries and deprive tissues of vital oxygen...
Sickle-cell anemia cannot be cured, though treatment can sometimes control its effects. It can be almost completely prevented, provided that partners who both carry the trait avoid having children. The missing element has been a simple test that would allow carriers to be identified and warned. Now this crucial procedure has been perfected...
...masse. On the contrary, the Jaycees have never been more responsible or achievement-oriented. In fact, a keen awareness of civic duty has led the organization to focus on new causes. In Philadelphia last month, Jaycees met with Black Panthers to rap on drugs and a sickle-cell anemia testing program; a group in Seattle is hoping to help set up halfway houses for parolees. The most important new approach centers on an aggressive drive to attract members in the nation's prisons. There are now 130 prison chapters, all formed for the same reason as chapters...
Weak and in agony, Carmen Martinez, 72, pleaded for the right to a peaceful death. Hospitalized in Hialeah, Fla., for almost two months, she had a fatal form of hemolytic anemia, a blood disease. The treatment that was keeping her alive involved surgical incisions into her withered veins so that almost continual blood transfusions could be forced in. "Please don't torture me any more," she begged her doctor, Rolando Lopez. Many doctors routinely, if quietly, withhold life-preserving treatment when they determine that its only effect will be to prolong the agony of dying. But Dr. Lopez...
...careers and sex than with the game. On Montreal's St. Urbain Street, while sitting in mourning for Jake's father, friends and relatives pass around vulgarities and insults along with the cake. Canadian intellectuals are "reared to believe in the cultural thinness of their own blood. Anemia is their heritage." In gum-gray England, the upper classes are "unaggressively handsome, that is to say, somewhat wanting, like an underdeveloped photograph...