Word: hemophilia
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With the help of a beagle named Ellie, Harvard doctors have completed research that could lead to a final cure for hemophilia...
...Family. By now, 80 victims of the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome have been identified. Very few have survived beyond puberty; most are in institutions. All are boys, indicating that the enzyme defect is transmitted, like hemophilia, through the mother on an X chromosome, although she appears unaffected. Researchers at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases checked to see whether the same enzyme deficiency could explain typical adult gout. It does in only a few cases, they reported last week. In one family, two gout victims have only about 1% of the normal PRT; in another family, it is about...
Even without Lyndon Johnson's proposed 10% tax surcharge, most citizens these days are already suffering from hemophilia of the pocketbook. Last year Americans paid $206.5 billion in all forms of taxes, with the Federal Government taking nearly 70%. Yet the state and local share of the take has more than doubled in the past decade, far exceeding the growth rate of Washington's proceeds...
Saving the Bleeders. In another series of experiments on animals, a Boston City Hospital team sponsored by the Harvard Medical School reported the possibility of spleen transplantation to save the lives of hemophilia victims. Hemophiliacs suffer from the lack of a blood-clotting substance called AHF. As a result, an otherwise manageable cut can become a source of quick death. At present, when a severe onset of hemorrhaging occurs, hemophilia victims can be saved from bleeding to death by injections of AHF extracted and concentrated from a healthy person's blood. But the process is costly, and the relief...
...they are extracted, the center rushes them to nearby hospitals, notably Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where there are always patients whose platelet count has been cut dangerously low by the drugs needed to treat their leukemia. Still other clotting factors, such as those needed by hemophilia victims, are precipitated out and kept frozen. For a few rare cases, white blood cells are also extracted...