Word: leukemias
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...cures were often simply transferred to cats, sometimes to no effect. Currently, 50% of America's small-animal practice is devoted to cats. The Cornell University Feline Research Center closely examines cat problems such as heart disease, unknown a decade ago, and drug-resistant respiratory viruses. Feline leukemia, a white-blood-cell viral disease, is communicable only between cats. It is usually fatal and can quickly devastate breeding operations. Now it is battled with expensive chemotherapy procedures. Care for cats has improved so markedly that over the past 30 years the life expectancy of a house-dwelling...
DIED. Daniel Lang, 68, author of eight critically acclaimed books concerned with social and scientific dilemmas; of leukemia; in New York City. Lang's best-known works were Casualties of War (1969), about the rape-killing of a young Vietnamese woman by American soldiers, and A Backward Look: Germans Remember (1978), on modern...
...response to the 120-year-old toxic waste contamination, East Woburn citizens--who are particularly concerned about several children who have developed acute leukemia, liver cancers and other diseases-established an action organization "For a Cleaner Environmental" (FACE...
...religious." Her husband, who became a manufacturer of burlap bags, died two years ago. "He loved Atlantic City," she says sadly. Also at the Montpelier are Mildred Locke, 60, and Bill Joblin, 64, who are dating but have separate rooms. Through a tragic coincidence, both their spouses died of leukemia, and since they had known each other before, it seemed natural that they become friendlier...
...soon realized that the threat and damage from such attacks were different from previous bombings. Healing of cuts and burns was slow because of radiation damage to the body's immune system. Unusually thick scars, called keloids, formed over wounds. Survivors experienced a high rate of blood disorder, leukemia and other cancers. There were also signs of premature aging, including so-called atomic-bomb cataracts. Many children born in the days and weeks after the blasts were retarded, microcephalic (with small heads) and stunted in growth...