Sickle Cell Anemia

Title: Sickle Cell Anemia
Category: Science & Technology / Biology
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Sickle Cell Anemia

written in dry articulated english, specific to the point very pure and specific Sickle Cell Anemia         Anemia (Greek for "bloodlessness"), a blood condition involving an abnormal reduction in the number of red blood cells (erythrocytes) or in their hemoglobin content. These cells are the means by which oxygen is carried to the various parts of the body. People who are anemic get symptoms caused by not enough delivery of oxygen to their body tissues. There …showed first 75 words of 604 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 604 total…who don't show the trait; such carriers are informed that a child resulting from the union of two carriers (parents) runs a one-in-four risk of having sickle-cell disease.         Therapy for sickle-cell anemia is largely symptomatic. Preventive administration of penicillin to affected children by the age of four months greatly decreases mortality from infections. For this reason, routine screening of newborns for sickle-cell anemia is currently carried out in more than 40 states within the United States.

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