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The film, in beginning to answer such questions, presents a review of the distant past and takes an educated look into the future. The film features the story of David Sanchez, a young man with sickle cell disease. [6] He is first featured in the hospital, sharing his experience as he gets a red blood cell transfusion.
Mortal Inheritance is a romantic drama about a woman dealing with sickle-cell anaemia. The plot also delves into cultural resistance to inter-ethnic marriages in Nigeria . The protagonist of the story is Kemi, a Yoruba lady with sickle cell anemia, the part was played by Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde .
The Sword and the Sickle is a novel by Mulk Raj Anand first published in 1942. Like his other novels, this one also deals with the topic of social and political structures, specifically, the rise of Communism. [1] The title for the book was given to Anand by George Orwell. [2]
The Asphyx, also known as Spirit of the Dead and The Horror of Death, is a 1972 British horror film/science fiction film directed by Peter Newbrook and starring Robert Stephens and Robert Powell. [1] [2] Asphyx refers to the Ancient Greek word asphyxía, meaning "lack of pulse", or English asphyxiation.
This section deals with snuff films as seen in fictional movies. It starts with a chapter on the infamous 1976 film Snuff.Made by husband-and-wife team Michael Findlay and Roberta Findlay in 1971, it was left unreleased until 1976 when Allan Shackleton added a new ending, a scene depicting what was supposed to be the film crew for the preceding movie murdering one of the actresses.
Der Todesking (lit. ' The Death King ') is a 1990 German horror film directed by Jörg Buttgereit.This experimental-style movie, which does not use central characters, explores the topic of suicide and violent death in the form of seven episodes, each one attributed to one day of the week.
Pfizer bought Oxbryta, also known as voxelotor, as part of its $5.4 billion buyout of Global Blood Therapeutics in 2022. Pfizer is also discontinuing all studies and access programs related to the ...
The film focuses on the story of Peter Smedley, an English millionaire hotelier who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2008. [3] At the beginning of the film, Pratchett meets with the Smedleys to talk about dying; then he visits the widow of a Belgian writer Hugo Claus who decided to end his life in 2008 after developing Alzheimer's disease.