KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has emphasised the urgent need to raise awareness about the hereditary and life-threatening challenges of thalassemia. “Thalassemia is not just ...

World Thalassemia Day is observed every year to raise public awareness about thalassemia. It will be observed on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder where the body ...

The results have been published in the Journal of Genetics and Genomics. Severe thalassemia includes conditions like Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis and transfusion-dependent thalassemia (TDT), which ...

Many of thalassemia patients (E/Beta and thalassemia major) are transfusion dependent for life long, starting from the age of 6th month. They are short stature with facial deformities (Thalassemic ...

VIJAYAWADA: Health Minister Satyakumar Yadav has said the government is committed to providing comprehensive support to thalassemia patients, who number 1,094 in Andhra Pradesh. Replying to a ...

India is known as the “Thalassemia capital of the world.” It has the highest number of patients with thalassemia major in the world. India has around 50 million (5 crore) carriers of the ß ...

Thalassemia, a genetic blood disorder, affects thousands of people in Telangana and Hyderabad, yet awareness and understanding of the condition remain limited. We spoke to Chandrakant Agarwal ...

Beta thalassemia is a treatable blood disorder that’s inherited, or passed down through your genes. With beta thalassemia, your body doesn’t make enough hemoglobin, which is an important ...

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 ...

Thalassemia is a common genetic condition affecting red blood cells. Children with severe forms of thalassemia often develop symptoms early in life, but effective treatment can manage the ...

Beta-thalassemia, also known as β-thalassemia is a genetic disorder marked by reduced or absent beta chain synthesis of hemoglobin, leading to ineffective erythropoiesis and severe anemia.