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...

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...

Two Americans and a Briton shared the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for groundbreaking stem-cell research on mice that helped establish the role of individual genes in human ailments including diabetes, heart disease and cancer.Mario R. Capecchi, Oliver Smithies and Sir Martin J. Evans...