The hemoglobinopathies, disorders that are caused by mutations in genes that encode the “adult” globins, exert a devastating toll on patients and their families. Worldwide, approximately 300,000 ...

An article published in Experimental Biology and Medicine (Volume 242, Issue 3, February, 2017) identifies microRNAs (miRNAs) as key factors in some hemoglobinopathies, genetic disorders characterized ...

The rising prevalence of conditions such as sickle cell disease (SCD) and thalassemia, coupled with the presence of a strong product pipeline for the treatment of hemoglobinopathies, is expected to ...

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) estimates that more than 270 million persons worldwide are heterozygous carriers of hereditary disorders of hemoglobin (Hb), and at least ...

Improving Survival Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer in the United States, 1975–2017: Long-Term Trends Across Age, Sex, and the HIV/AIDS Era Exagamglogene autotemcel, the first clustered ...

Since completion of the human genome project, a major aim in the field of genetics has been to determine how individual genomes differ from each other and how these differences explain variation in ...

The Committee on Practice Bulletins–Obstetrics of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has released a practice bulletin on screening for and managing hemoglobinopathies ...

New Delhi : While we have been busy braving the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic for the past two years, our focus on other medical challenges could not remain just ancillary. For instance, the ...

The human genome project has ignited considerable excitement about the future of medicine by revealing insights into diseases that seemed impossible to unravel only a few years ago. But knowledge of ...

The recently released Guidelines on ‘Hemoglobinopathies’ in India by the National Health Mission aims at improving the health outcomes and quality of lives of people with blood disorders in India ...

Newborn screening (NBS) is a nationwide program to find babies born with certain health conditions, including thalassemia and other hemoglobinopathies. While ...