Word: anemia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...soon her father, the Rev. Lorenda R. Walker, took a pastorate in Columbus. The trip to Ohio in a model A Ford was rough, and Marclan came down with pneumonia. At Columbus' Children's Hospital, doctors found something worse: she had sickle-cell anemia. That was early in 1938. It was two years before she went home from the hospital...
Sickle-cell anemia is so-called because, in its victims, many red blood cells change from their normal roughly spherical shape to that of a thin sickle. It is virtually confined to Negroes. The sickling trait is transmitted by a gene-just how is not certain. Best estimates are that 9% of U.S. Negroes (or 1,500,000) carry the gene but rarely need treatment, while perhaps 30,000, who have inherited the gene from both parents, have the full-blown disease...
...parents less upset about the nation's educational anemia than the educators themselves? Such is the impression left by a Gallup poll of 3,000 parents and 1,100 high school principals...
...treating disease, especially emotional disorders, with prolonged sleep. This has not paid off too well, the anonymous authors of the plan conceded. Prolonged, drug-induced sleep "cannot be used as a universal therapeutic measure," partly because sometimes the cure is worse than the disease-it causes fever or anemia...
...hospital, off and on (the hospital figures the cost of all this free care at $36,962.15), and after 1,539 transfusions of blood donated by the Red Cross, Helen Maysey, 27, married Shirley (Red) Andrus, 36, an electrician. Although her disease has many of the earmarks of Mediterranean anemia, which appears in successive generations in Italy and eastern Mediterranean countries, there is no history of this anemia in her family, no evidence whether she would pass it on to her children...