Cobalt chloride has been known to be useful in treating anemic patients.
There are other patients who use needles and syringes for pain-relieving problems (cancer patients), anemic patients, etc.
Researchers for the study, to be published in The New England Journal of Medicine, divided anemic patients with kidney disease into two groups.
In June 1989, the agency approved erythropoietin only for anemic patients who required dialysis with an artificial kidney machine.
In March it put strict new warnings on the labels, saying the products should be used at the smallest dosage that lets anemic patients avoid blood transfusions.
Blood transfusion may benefit some anemic patients.
The Chicago researcher, Eugene Goldwasser, even treated three anemic patients but had too little of the substance to show a meaningful improvement.
I'm not a doctor, but I've seen anemic patients at a hospital.
Elderly, anemic and malnourished patients may absorb the suture more quickly.
This calculation is necessary because the raw reticulocyte count is misleading in anemic patients.