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The Bleeding Disease: Hemophilia and the Unintended Consequences of Medical Progress

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By Stephen Pemberton

Web edition: August 12, 2011
Print edition: August 27, 2011; Vol.180 #5 (p. 30)

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A historian shows how advances in treatment made hemophilia manageable — yet led to many deaths from HIV-tainted plasma.

Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2011, 377 p., $50

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