Patients with beta-thalassemia major (also known as Cooley's anemia) have a reduction or absence of beta protein in their ...

While gene therapy has emerged as a promising alternative for treating beta-thalassemia, hematopoietic stem cell ...

Thalassemia is an inherited blood condition. When you have it, your body has fewer red blood cells and less of a protein called hemoglobin than it should. Hemoglobin is important because it lets ...

Medically reviewed by Gagandeep Brar, MDBeta thalassemia minor—also known as beta thalassemia trait or B thalassemia—is a ...

The first medical treatment to use Crispr gene editing has been on the market for a year. Its complexity means few patients ...

After a long struggle, and with the help of Frank Vella, a biochemist from Singapore University, we found that this child had thalassemia, an inherited blood disease that was thought at the time ...

A family of Albanian descent had an unusual form of beta thalassemia. The father of two children with mild thalassemia major had normal red-cell morphology and normal levels of hemoglobins A 2 and ...

An ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will develop a strategic plan and blueprint for addressing thalassemia in the United States. In conducting its work ...

The government has planned to launch a nationwide awareness campaign on prevention of Thalassemia in the country. Managing Director, Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal, Amir Fida Paracha in an interview said that ...

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DEAR DR. ROACH: I am Greek and have thalassemia minor. In general, my red blood cells are much smaller than typical ones, and my iron content is significantly low. Every time I see a different doctor ...