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This type of heart disease is rare, the doctors note, where malnutrition and parasitic infestations cause anemia and keep the hematocrit scores down. It is common est among well-fed, "redblooded" peoples. Bleeding in moderation to cut the hematocrit score to a safe reading between 40% and 45%, the Tulane doctors suggest, may well be one answer...
...months after she took Chloromycetin late in 1958, Mrs. Love felt weak and went to another doctor, who diagnosed aplastic anemia, in which the bone marrow fails to make enough blood cells. Her husband sold his business, the Beer Barrel Tavern outside Redding, to pay for her care, including 60 transfusions. At Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital Center, the transfusions and vigorous treatment with cortisone and testosterone kept Mrs. Love among the 25% of patients who get aplastic anemia and survive, but the hormones produced their own side effects. Though Chloromycetin causes these severe reactions in only one of an estimated...
...related microbes called rickettsiae ). Not until 1952, when hundreds of thousands of patients had had the drug-often for viral respiratory infections against which neither it nor any other antibiotic is effective-did evidence arise that it had caused a dozen or more cases, several fatal, of aplastic anemia...
...more or less voluntarily, since they have as much stake as anyone in weighing a drug's side effects against its advantages. Last week the Upjohn Co. withdrew Monase. a "psychic energizer,"after reporting to FDA that widespread use since June 1961 had produced seven cases of aplastic anemia, four of them fatal-though the drug was tested in 3,500 patients, with no sign of damage to their blood-cell mechanisms, before it was marketed...
...Other Drugs. With the aim of getting maximum benefits for patients at a minimum cost in illness and death from side effects, the American Medical Association's Council on Drugs keeps a running score of aplastic-anemia cases and related blood disorders attributed to drugs...