Word: anemia
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What was it? The researchers isolated one microorganism after another; they cultured each and tried it out. Last week they reported in the Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine that they had found a chicken dung culture which produced the same effect as liver extract in patients with pernicious anemia...
Rita Hayworth, 29, spent the week in a Paris hospital, getting injections and a transfusion for anemia and exhaustion...
When she was a year old, anemic Beverly was taken to Akron's Children's Hospital. A deep injection of liver extract for anemia is painful, and babies usually howl vigorously when they get one-but not Beverly; she didn't even whimper. Hospital doctors examined her more closely. They decided that she really is a "painless" baby suffering from "indifference to injury, of congenital origin"; she cries only when hungry or angry. It is a rare condition (first described ten years ago by Johns Hopkins Neurologist Frank R. Ford), probably due to a defect...
Sulfonamides may cause nausea, vomiting, cyanosis (skin turning blue because of lack of oxygen in the blood), mental confusion, anemia, damage to liver and kidneys-and, in some cases, death...
Their conclusion: lack of zinc (necessary for normal cell growth) probably accounts for some of the abnormal behavior of cells in leukemia. Their discovery may eventually rank in importance with the finding that pernicious anemia is caused in part by an iron deficiency in red blood cells, which can be corrected by liver extract. Perhaps a cure for leukemia may be found in some substance not yet discovered that will enable white cells to absorb more zinc...