Thalassemia is an inherited disorder that affects the production of hemoglobin and causes anemia. Hemoglobin is the substance in red blood cells that enables them to transport oxygen throughout the body. It is composed of a heme molecule and protein...

Thalassemia (British spelling, "thalassaemia") is an inherited autosomal recessive blood disease. In thalassemia, the genetic defect results in reduced rate of synthesis of one of the globin chains that make up hemoglobin. Reduced synthesis of one of...

Q. My son and husband both have thalassemia trait in their blood. I knew my husband had it, but we just found out that our son does too. He had a blood test that showed a low blood count and low hemoglobin level. The...

Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder in which the body is unable to make adequate hemoglobin. This is due to an inborn error of metabolism that leads to absence or reduced synthesis of one or more types of globin polypeptide chains of the hemoglobin...

Two government hospitals in Calcutta that refused to treat an HIV-positive boy for more than a year said Tuesday they would investigate why he was turned away, and a government agency also said it would look into the case.The boy, 7-year-old Maniur Rehman, was admitted...

Excerpts from the citation awarding the 2007 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine to U.S. citizens Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies and Briton Sir Martin J. Evans for groundbreaking discoveries that led to a technology known as gene targeting in mice.The process has helped...