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Thank You ABC: For highlighting hemochromatosis (Celtic Curse) on St. Patrick's Day

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This is great! A news organization making the connection between Celtic curse, St. Patrick's Day and hemochromatosis . Please share this story with friends (a more complete blog post on this is in the works). The more people know about this condition the better. Celtic Curse is a leading cause of diabetes, liver cancer, joint pain, and heart disease. Yet it is easy to treat, by giving blood. Hemochromatosis Heroes like Dr. Martin L. Alpert , a family practice physician in Santa Monica, Calif., deserve national recognition for insisting that routine physical exams include inexpensive tests of serum iron and iron binding capacity, used together to calculate iron saturation. Why? "because I picked up two or three cases a year for probably the last 25 years." Such a simple way to avert needless human suffering, not to mention the medical cost savings, clearly in the millions at this one practice alone when you consider the alternative, treating 50 people suffering from fu