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 F, ...

IN 1955 Rucknagel et al. 1 described a new abnormal hemoglobin in a Negro family in North Carolina. This hemoglobin, designated "I", migrated more rapidly than normal hemoglobin on filter-paper ...

Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder in which the body makes an abnormal form of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the protein molecule in red blood cells that carries oxygen. The disorder results in ...

A hemoglobin electrophoresis test is a blood test used to measure and identify the different types of hemoglobin in your bloodstream. Hemoglobin is the protein inside red blood cells responsible for ...

Thalassemia is an inherited blood disease which causes defective red blood cell production leading to low haemoglobin and such patients need lifelong blood transfusions to cope up with life. There are ...

Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder that results in the body having less haemoglobin than normal. Haemoglobin in our red blood cells carries oxygen. Hence, Thalassemia causes severe anaemia, ...

For nearly a decade, Rohit spent his childhood in hospital wards instead of playgrounds. Diagnosed with beta thalassemia major at just six months of age, he nee ...