Pulling for Charity. Knights of Columbus in Iowa rallied to both financially sponsor and organize teams for the second annual Plane Pull for Special Olympics Iowa. The event was held at the Des Moines International Airport on June 6, 2015 and raised $100,000 in support of Special Olympic Athletes. Video.
Polycythemia (also known as polycythaemia or polyglobulia) is a disease state in which the proportion of blood volume that is occupied by red blood cells increases.Blood volume proportions can be measured as hematocrit.bsolute polycythemia [edit]. The overproduction of red blood cells may be due to a primary process in the bone marrow (a so-called myeloproliferative syndrome), or it may be a reaction to chronically low oxygen levels or, rarely, a malignancy.
But in polycythemia vera, the mechanism your body uses to control the production of blood cells becomes damaged, and your bone marrow makes too many of some blood cells. The mutation that causes polycythemia vera is thought to affect a protein switch that tells the cells to grow.auses. Polycythemia vera occurs when a mutation in a bone marrow cell causes a problem with blood cell production. Normally, your body carefully regulates the number of each of the three types of blood cells you have.