Word: hemophilia
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...nonprofit Medic-Alert Foundation. Subscribers pay $5 each for a bracelet and a lifetime medical record kept on file at Turlock. The tag bears the snake staff of Aesculapius and the words "Medic Alert." On the other side is a warning, such as "Diabetic," "Skindiver" (subject to the bends), "Hemophilia," "Allergic to Penicillin." Engraved along with the warning are the wearer's identification number and the injunction "Phone 209-634-4917." Calls may be made collect, the clock around...
...still Fred's life dripped steadily away. Then, suddenly, he got better. As he hobbled out of the hospital on his crutches last week and headed for his home in Muskogee, Okla., a team of dedicated physicians and surgeons was still wondering how an ordinary case of hemophilia had degenerated into a medical nightmare; the doctors were also trying to decide just which one of their desperate efforts had actually saved their patient...
...much more concerned with trying to figure out what saved him-the massive transfu sions, the great quantities of Blomback Fraction, or the brief dose of psychiatry. Whatever the vital treatment was, says Dr. Hill, "the first and most important thing we learned in this case is that no hemophilia is ever hopeless...
From what they have slowly and painstakingly pieced together about mosaicism in female cells, medical geneticists are getting a better understanding of several inherited disorders including some forms of anemia and hemophilia, and color blindness. The research has a direct bearing on cases of genetically confused sex, in which both males and females may have an extra female sex chromosome. And this in turn may have surprising importance in mental deficiency, in which sex-chromosome abnormalities are now being detected more often. The cell studies are also tied in with some forms of cancer, especially a form of chronic leukemia...
Asset for Longevity? In the human X chromosome, the gene for red-green color recognition is located fairly close to those for G-6-PD and for the blood factor that gives protection against hemophilia B. So color blindness, G-6-PD deficiency and this form of hemophilia are inherited according to the same pattern. Nearly always, in the conception of a female, the X chromosome from one healthy parent will carry the normal gene, and one is enough. But a man must get his X chromosome from his mother, and if she carries the defective gene...