Word: hemophilia
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With nothing real to worry about, Rock starts worrying about himself. Every time his gums bleed he imagines hemophilia. Every little freckle has a meaning all its own: cancer! One day he feels some minor heartburn, suspects a major heart attack, rushes off to consult his best friend and neighbor (Tony Randall...
Carrier Mothers. Since boy victims of Duchenne dystrophy are severely crippled in their teens and dead at an early age, they do not reproduce. It is women who carry the curse, much as they carry that of hemophilia, without clearly falling victim to it themselves. Heredity decrees that half of a woman carrier's sons will be victims of the disease and half of her daughters will be carriers...
...prick me, do I not bleed?" asked Shakespearean Richard Burton, 38, paraphrasing Shylock. Burton does, frighteningly, for as he explained in Manhattan last week, he has suffered all his life from a mild form of "bleeder's disease," or hemophilia. Recently recruited by the National Hemophilia Foundation, he announced the formation of a Richard Burton Hemophilia Fund, with Wife Liz as chairman, to aid research on the disease...
...Direct Measure. "The trouble is," said the University of North Carolina's Dr. Kenneth M. Brinkhous, director of the U.S.'s leading hemophilia research program, "we can only measure the clotting factors indirectly by their effects-usually in the test tube...
...progress is advancing from the lab to the bedside. Factor VIII is now being extracted from human plasma and concentrated about 30 times. It is given by intravenous drip to victims of hemophilia A and von Willebrand's disease when they have crises of massive bleeding. Except in such emergencies, the usual treatment for all the clotting disorders remains a transfusion of fresh whole blood or plasma-not to replace blood that the patient has lost, but to supply the missing clotting factor and thus keep him from losing more...