Donating Blood Kept Man's Disease at Bay

An 83-year-old man kept the symptoms of a genetic disease at bay — without even knowing he had it —  thanks to his years of donating blood, according to a recent report of his case. The disease, called hereditary haemochromatosis, causes the body to absorb too much iron from food, said Dr. Kohtaro Ooka, an internal medicine resident at Yale School of Medicine and the lead author of the case report. Too much iron in the body, also called iron overload, can have wide-ranging effec