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Alan Bavley

Too many hospital blood tests can lead to anemia

Last updated Monday, August 8, 2011 - 5:28pm

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A stay at the hospital can be draining in more ways than patients and doctors realize, researchers at St. Luke's Hospital of Kansas City say.

Those frequent tests that suck tube after tube of blood out of patients' arms can lead to anemia serious enough not only to leave patients tired and short of breath but to even raise their risk of dying.

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Sex and space? Houston, we have a problem

Alan Bavley, Kansas City Star

Last updated Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 3:54pm

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Ever dream about a honeymoon in space?

You may want to think twice after you hear about Joe Tash's research.

The near-zero gravity of Earth orbit may do serious harm to the male and female reproductive systems, the University of Kansas Medical Center biologist has discovered.

Sperm counts drop. Egg-producing ovary cells waste away.

At least that's been the case among the laboratory and space-traveling rodents that Tash has studied.

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