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American Family Physician May 1, 2004 Stuart & Viera	Polycythemia Vera Polycythemia vera is a chronic myeloproliferative disorder characterized by increased red blood cell mass. The resultant hyperviscosity of the blood predisposes such patients to thrombosis. Untreated patients may survive for six to 18 months, whereas adequate treatment may extend life expectancy to more than 10 years.
Nursing November 2011 Jeanne Held-Warmkessel	Taming Three High-Risk Chemotherapy Complications A review of three common chemotherapy-associated complications that can be serious enough to require hospitalization: febrile neutropenia, chemotherapy-related nephrotoxicity, and chemotherapy-related enterotoxicity.
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American Family Physician November 1, 2005 Eddie Needham	Management of Acute Renal Failure Acute renal failure is an acute loss of kidney function that occurs over days to weeks and results in an inability to appropriately excrete nitrogenous wastes and creatinine. In spite of this rapid decline in kidney function, patients with acute renal failure often have few symptoms.
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BusinessWeek December 6, 2004 Catherine Arnst	Cord Blood To The Rescue A study in the Nov. 25 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine confirms that stem cells in blood extracted from the umbilical cords of newborns can help leukemia patients
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HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Jim Schnabel	Oxygen on the Brain An ancient cellular program to protect cells when oxygen is low seems crucial for the production of new brain cells.
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Carol Ezzell Webb	The Body Shops Part human, part machine, replacement organs may one day extend your life
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Scientific American January 2009 Charles Q. Choi	Do White Blood Cells Make Cancer Deadly? The ability to spread underlies the killing power of cancer. The process occurs, John Pawelek thinks, when tumor cells fuse with white blood cells -- an idea that, if right, could yield new therapies
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BusinessWeek September 5, 2005 Kerry Capell	Meeting Leukemia's Diagnostic Challenge Tests that distinguish among the disease's many forms either cost too much or don't exist. Dr. Torsten Haferlach And Switzerland's Roche Diagnostics may have a solution.
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