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If we're able to concentrate this into pill form, we're going to have a revolutionary treatment, not only for sickle-cell but for thalassemia as well,(...)
If we're able to concentrate this into pill form, we're going to have a revolutionary treatment, not only for sickle-cell but for thalassemia as well,(...)

If we're able to concentrate this into pill form, we're going to have a revolutionary treatment, not only for sickle-cell but for thalassemia as well,(...)

Date1/13/1993
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Original Toronto Star caption: If we're able to concentrate this into pill form, we're going to have a revolutionary treatment, not only for sickle-cell but for thalassemia as well, Dr. Melvin H. Freedman, chief of hematology at the Hospital for Sick Children, said of hematologist Dr. Nancy Olivieri's research. Olivieri, who used the highly experimental drug on Anita Aimola, 22, on compassionate grounds, said, 'This drug shows enormous promise towards an entire new way to treat these diseases.
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