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...performs its specific duties. For now, however, recognition of the physical difference gives doctors a potential new tool in diagnosing disease. In blood samples from healthy people, about 20% of the lymphocytes are B-cells, the remainder Tcells. The percentage changes in some ill people; in most chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients, for example, the majority of the cells are B-cells, a condition that can be now determined with speed and precision...
...relief of some and the disappointment of others, "Love Story" has absolutely nothing to do with Harvard or ice hockey or leukemia. Each week will bring a totally independent one house show, usually along the traditional lines of boy meets girl, and so on. The title of the series--a publicity gimmick from the producers who also created TV's "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"--and the movie's theme music will be the only recurring features in the format...
...They want her to die. They want her to die now." An overworked intern admits Mary Berquam, a little girl with leukemia, to the pediatrics ward of a university hospital to die. But the resident, McMillan, overrules her father's demand to let her die in peace. "I had no time for goofy parents," recalls the intern. Enter the cold, stern hematology chief, Prader. He persuades the Ber-quams to have Mary treated for the sake of scientific research. Mary's condition seems to improve...
Clustered Cases. The team's discovery was triggered by the observation that feline leukemia tends to occur in clusters; when one cat in a household comes down with the disease, other unrelated animals develop it too. Intrigued by this pattern of illness, Hardy and his colleagues began testing as many cats as they could for the presence of FeLV, which is carried in platelets, an important blood component, and in white blood cells...
...tests, made at Manhattan's Animal Medical Center, the A.S.P.C.A., and Boston's Angell Memorial Hospital, seem to provide convincing evidence that feline leukemia is contagious. Simple blood tests made on 1,462 apparently healthy pet cats from disease-free households showed that only two cats carried FeLV. But of 543 cats from FeLV-infected households, 177 harbored the virus, and many of these later developed leukemic disease. Of the 148 cats from this group that researchers continued to study, 35, or 23.7%, died within six months-24 of them from leukemia, 11 from an FeLV-related anemia...