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Not enough voices: Pain of living with a blood disorder

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. According to the World Health Organisation, approximately 300,000 babies are born every ...
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Breakthrough for genetic diseases: New tool can fix ‘nonsense’ mutations, including haemoglobin defects

A new gene-editing technique known as PERT has shown the ability to correct a wide range of disorders caused by “nonsense” mutations, including forms that interfere with haemoglobin production. The ...
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Move over HbA1c: The plasma glucose test that could spot diabetes better

An important new review published in The Lancet Regional Health has raised serious concerns about the reliability of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c), the most widely used test for diagnosing and ...
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Haemoglobinopathies and health disparities: findings of a large-scale sample survey among indigenous populations in Odisha, India

Objectives To estimate the prevalence of sickle cell trait, sickle cell disease, beta-thalassaemia minor and ...