It is important to remove the unnecessary iron before damage can occur. Iron reduction is accomplished with chelation therapy, which is the removal of iron pharmacologically with an iron-chelating agent such as desferrioxamine, brand name Desferal or deferasirox, brand name Exjade.
Future president Franklin Delano Roosevelt weds his fifth cousin once removed, Eleanor Roosevelt, in New York on this day in 1905.
1884-1920: Becoming a Roosevelt. 1  Eleanor Roosevelt was born October 11, 1884 into a family of lineage, wealth, and uncommon sadness. 2  An astute and observant child, Eleanor rarely failed to notice the tension between her parents and the strain that it placed on both of them. 3  Yet this intimacy was shortlived.