J. W. Eschbach, 74, Dies; Developed Anemia Drug
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Dr. Eschbach was a leading kidney specialist whose studies in the 1960s led to a dramatic improvement in the treatment of anemia in patients on dialysis.
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Ancel Keys, the University of Minnesota scientist who invented the K ration diet used by soldiers in World War II and who linked high cholesterol and fatty diets to heart disease, has died at the age of 100.
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Oct 06  - Giving blood transfusions to anemic patients who are hospitalized with severe acute heart pain or a heart attack may increase their risk of dying, according to a new report.
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Appreciation: Folkman, who died Tuesday,  cured cancer in the lab and revolutionized treatment of the disease. His colleagues talk about the impact of the man and his research
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By Julius A. Karash, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Sep. 5--Sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder, afflicts more than 70,000 people in the United States.
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Amgen Inc. has added a warning to its anemia drug, Aranesp, for kidney dialysis and cancer patients after studies on similar drugs showed higher doses can cause blood clots and death, the company said a letter released on Friday.
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Debate about the safety of a group of  anemia drugs widely used in cancer patients should focus on a  minority of patients who got the drugs for unapproved uses,  doctors said on Sunday.
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WASHINGTON -- The government says a controversial abortion pill is safe enough to remain on the market despite three deaths. The father of a teen who died after taking Mifeprex, also known as RU-486, said
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Paris - Doctors who treated Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat believe he died of a blood condition called disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and have ruled out poisoning, Le Monde newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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Description: Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, who revolutionized the way the world looks at terminally ill patients, has died at age 78.
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Dr. Judah Folkman, a giant of cancer research who discovered that tumors generate a network of tiny blood vessels to nourish themselves, has died at the age of 74, Harvard Medical School said on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - In the lab, multiple myeloma  cells are killed by drugs similar to existing anti-diabetes  drugs like Avandia or Actos, according to researchers at the  University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, New  York.
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, tireless liberal activist and confidant to President John Kennedy, died of a heart attack in New York on Wednesday night. He was 89.
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Thomas M. Donahue, one of the country&#39;s leading space and planetary scientists and a pioneer of space exploration, died Saturday of complications following heart surgery.
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MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, Ohio - The man who invented the small, long-lasting alkaline batteries that power Walkmans, Gameboys and other portable devices has died.
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Doctors should stop using the anemia  drug Procrit, made by Johnson & Johnson's Ortho Biotech  Products L.P., if an oxygen-carrying agent in a patient's blood  reaches a certain level, the company said in documents released  on Wednesday.
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Old Dirty Bastard&#39;s death outside a New York studio was ruled an accidental overdose by a medical examiner. The New York City medical examiner&#39;s office said ODB died fromt he effects of combining cocaine wiht Tramadol, a prescription painkiller.