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SICKLE CELL DISEASE, BLOOD CELL AGGREGATES...

Newswise — It’s long been known that patients with sickle cell disease have malformed, “sickle-shaped” red blood cells – which are normally disc-shaped – that can cause sudden painful episodes when they block small blood vessels.

Now, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have shown that blood from sickle cell patients also conta...

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Submitted by admin on Mon, 2008-04-28 18:40.

Some slept, some stood before deadly derailment in China...

Some passengers were sleeping, but others were standing in the aisle waiting to get off when their high-speed train derailed, toppling into a ditch "like a roller coaster" and slamming into another train. At least 70 people died and more than 400 were injured.

China reacted swiftly to its worst train accident in a decade, sending top officials and soldiers to Zibo, the site of Monday's p...

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Submitted by admin on Tue, 2008-04-29 04:40.