Word: hemophilia
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...amendment's sponsors, tried in vain to get Congress to underwrite the cost of treating all catastrophic illness. But with kidney disease as a precedent, Congress may have a hard time withstanding the pressure of other medical lobbies who demand subsidized treatment of such illnesses as hemophilia, multiple sclerosis and heart disease...
...primitive in Flannery O'Conner, or that the setting for this atavism is our own South. What should frighten us is that her tribal warfare scenarios find their metaphors in the passion play of Mary and Jesus. Flannery O'Conner's most telling achievement is her derision of the hemophilia of our self-images. She points out that if violence kills, it also transfigures...
...movie, based on Robert K. Massie's historical novel of the same title, focuses on the giants of the revolutionary period. Lenin, Trotsky and Kerensky are set against Tsar Nicholas II, his German wife Alexandra, their four pure daughters and a son, Alexis, who is crippled by hemophilia. There is Grigori Rasputin, the Siberian starets whose mystical healing powers and divine judgment endeared him to the Tsarina. This placed him in a position of immense power within the government, despite his fanatical ambitions and licentious behavior. And there are Nicholas' ministers and advisers, his generals and soldiers. All of these...
...made gene is relatively crude. It lacks, for example, the coded signals that start and stop the production of protein. But his work has brought closer the day when artificially created genes may be used to replace defective ones in order to cure such genetic diseases as hemophilia and muscular dystrophy. Another possibility, Khorana concedes, is "the genetic planning of individuals-tailoring people to fit patterns, turning out athletes or intellectuals." But, he adds, "it is a very very long time...
...generations of European aristocracy. Her son, James I of England, was affected, as are several living European aristocrats who cooperated in the study but asked that they not be identified. In a simliar fashion, Queen Victoria-whose father, the Duke of Kent, showed signs of porphyria-passed hemophilia on to generations of male European royalty...