If you have beta thalassemia and you're pregnant -- or plan to start a family -- there are steps you should take to protect your health and you baby's health. With the right care, you should be ...

The blood disorder beta thalassemia can bring complications that include things like bone damage, heart problems, and slow growth in children. Treatment can help you or your child avoid many of ...

The groundbreaking treatment can now also be used to treat transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia in people 12 and older. Like sickle cell, beta thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder.

You most likely have beta thalassemia minor (one normal gene and one that causes low beta-cell-chain production), which consists of mild anemia and very small cells. This condition can look very ...

The one-time therapy, which will be sold under the brand name Casgevy, is for patients with sickle cell disease and a related blood disorder called beta thalassemia, both of which are inherited.

Patients with beta-thalassemia major (also known as Cooley's anemia) have a reduction or absence of beta protein in their ...

Beta-thalassemia, also known as β-thalassemia is a genetic disorder marked by reduced or absent beta chain synthesis of hemoglobin, leading to ineffective erythropoiesis and severe anemia.

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 ...

SAN DIEGO — Kamila Saradpon, an 11-year-old girl from San Diego, is living with beta thalassemia, a rare inherited blood disorder that affects less than 2% of people worldwide. To raise ...