With gene therapy offering new hope for thalassemia, experts urge Indian govt to invest in early diagnosis, genetic testing, ...

Nga’s eldest daughter, Viet Hai, born in 1968, suffers from a heart defect, tetralogy of Fallot. Her daughter died at the age of 17 months. Tran To Nga has two other daughters, one born in 1971 and ...

Thalassemia, a group of inherited blood disorders characterized by reduced or abnormal hemoglobin production, continues to ...

Geneticists have used a cutting-edge DNA base editing treatment on several patients to cure thalassemia, a prevalent and ...

I read an article a few years back that said if you had vertigo, you more than likely would also have restless legs syndrome ...

Feeling tired and weak all the time and having pale or yellowish skin may be connected to your genes. Alpha thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder in which specific gene mutations that get passed ...

There are two types of thalassemia: alpha and beta. The classification depends on whether the genetic defect affects the alpha-globin or beta-globin chain of hemoglobin. If I have a problem with ...

Then, Agios shared positive data from its Phase 3 study of mitapivat in transfusion dependent alpha or beta thalassemia, in which the drug met its primary endpoint, as: 42.3% of patients in the ...

P.L. ANSWER: There are two different families of thalassemia, which comes from the Greek word for sea. (Thalassemias are very common in the Mediterranean.) Alpha thalassemias have reduced or ...

HYDROPS fetalis associated with hemoglobin Barts is believed to represent the homozygous state of α thalassemia. Ten cases occurring in Chinese families in Indonesia, Malaya and Hong Kong ...

Alpha thalassemia silent carriers and individuals with sickle cell trait share a common vascular phenotype of increased NOS-dependent inhibition of arterial vasoconstriction. Genetic variants that ...