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15 03, 2016

What is Thalassaemia?

2017-04-26T12:34:50+00:00

By Fauzia Saeed, Psychologist, Thalassaemia Centre PRC, Punjab Branch,Lahore Thalassaemia is an inherited blood disorder in which the body makes an abnormazorm of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the protein molecule in red blood cells that carries oxygen. The disorder results in excessive destruction of red blood cells, which leads to anemia. Anemia is a condition in [...]

15 05, 2011

Each year approximately 5000 thalassaemia infected babies are born

2011-06-03T07:15:10+00:00

Dr.  Saeed Ahmed, Husaini Blood Bank Thalassaemia is an inherited genetic blood disorder in which patient’s hemoglobin is abnormally formed. Normally the baby inherits one alpha & one beta gene from the mother and one alpha & beta gene from the father. These two alpha and two beta genes produce two alpha and two beta [...]