Word: leukemias
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...drug for cat leukemia...
...epidemic is ravaging America's cats. About 10% of the 40 million cats in the U.S. are victims of a type of leukemia that attacks the animals' immune systems and is usually fatal. The disease, which does not affect humans or other animals, is easily transmitted among cats. For the past 2½ years, Norden Laboratories, a Nebraska-based division of the SmithKline Beckman drug company, has been working on a vaccine that inhibits the growth of leukemia in cats. Says Product Manager Reynolds Davis: "If everything goes smoothly, we could have a product out in 1984." With...
...cost. The price could run as much as $80 per shot when administered by a veterinarian, and two or three shots will be needed for full treatment. Norden Laboratories says the high costs are needed to pay for the nearly $2 million that has gone into research for the leukemia vaccine. Still, many people are likely to consider the treatment a bargain if the cat is a champion silver-mackerel tabby worth $2,500 or a $3,000 ruddy-coated Abyssinian. Or just a favorite alley...
This Is the Child is all the more powerful for its lack of calculation. Terry Pringle writes about his son's battle against leukemia with unadorned honesty. In 1980 Pringle, an Abilene, Texas, insurance claims adjuster, his wife Brenda and their two sons, Michael, 6, and Eric, 4, are plucked from their ordinary lives of Star Wars, shopping malls and Sunday school. In Houston's huge and hectic Tex as Children's Hospital, Eric, comforted by a Han Solo toy, endures daily blood drawings from his hands, spinal taps, radiation and chemotherapy. Although ravaged by treatment...
...traumas range from fear of death to family split-ups. In Middletown, across the Susquehanna River from Three Mile Island, a ten-year-old boy trembled and broke out in sweat more than a year after the accident; he was convinced that he had contracted leukemia. The Rev. David Newhart, a Middletown pastor, has witnessed several marital breakups. Says he: "Just the question of whether to relocate causes great problems. The wife is mainly concerned about the children, while the husband is worried about finding a new job and supporting the family...