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  2. Haemophilia - Wikipedia

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    Haemophilia (British English), or hemophilia (American English) [6] (from Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma) 'blood' and φιλία (philía) 'love of'), [7] is a mostly inherited genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to make blood clots, a process needed to stop bleeding.

  3. Contaminated haemophilia blood products - Wikipedia

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    Contaminated hemophilia blood products were a serious public health problem in the late 1970s up to 1985. [citation needed] Hemophilia A causes a deficiency in Factor VIII, a protein required for blood clotting. Factor VIII injections are a common treatment to prevent or stop bleeding in people with hemophilia A. [1]

  4. Timeline of scientific discoveries - Wikipedia

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    The timeline begins at the Bronze Age, as it is difficult to give even estimates for the timing of events prior to this, such as of the discovery of counting, natural numbers and arithmetic. To avoid overlap with timeline of historic inventions , the timeline does not list examples of documentation for manufactured substances and devices unless ...

  5. List of fossil sites - Wikipedia

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    Fossils may be found either associated with a geological formation or at a single geographic site. Geological formations consist of rock that was deposited during a specific period of time. They usually extend for large areas, and sometimes there are different important sites in which the same formation is exposed.

  6. Pfizer's gene therapy cuts hemophilia A bleeding rate ... - AOL

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    Hemophilia A affects about 25 in every 100,000 male births worldwide, according to data cited by Pfizer, with majority of them having a moderate to severe form of the disease for which the gene ...

  7. History of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The American Nation: A History of the United States: AP Edition (2008) Egerton, Douglas R. et al. The Atlantic World: A History, 1400–1888 (2007), college textbook; 530pp; Elliott, John H. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492–1830 (2007), 608pp excerpt and text search, advanced synthesis

  8. ‘The Crossing’ by Huffington Post

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    Watch firsthand, in 360 video, as Susan Sarandon listens and learns about refugees' hopes, dreams and journeys

  9. Infected blood scandal in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The World Health Organization also warned the UK not to import blood from countries with a high prevalence of hepatitis, such as the United States. [52] In May 1975, the World Health Organization passed a widely circulated resolution urging all countries to aim at self-sufficiency in blood products.