How To Use thalassaemia In A Sentence
- Several diseases are directly caused due to single nucleotide changes such as thalassaemia, muscular dystrophy, phenylketonuria, long QT syndrome, familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy etc.
- In recent years, sickle cell disease and thalassaemia, both conditions largely confined to ethnic minorities, have gained increasing recognition by the white dominated health services in the United Kingdom.
- Dr Allison Streetly, national dir, NHS sickle cell and thalassaemia screening programme, for serv healthcare. New Year honours list: Order of the British Empire, Officer
- Objectives:To evaluate the value of combined measurement of mean corpuscular volume(MCV)and red blood cell (RBC)in the screening of thalassaemia trait in pregnant women.
- The blood dyscrasias that most commonly lead to leg ulceration are sickle cell disease, thalassaemia, thrombocythaemia, and polycythaemia rubra vera.
- But according to this article, “An Italian judge ordered a sterile couple to transfer all the embryos obtained with assisted reproduction techniques, despite the fact that both would-be parents carry the recessive gene for beta thalassaemia, wanted a preimplant diagnosis, and would not keep a child born with the condition.” A Reframing I’d Like to See: Government-Enforced Childbirth
- I first met Prawase Wasi in 1966 on a visit to Thailand on behalf of the World Health Organization to assess the extent of the problem of thalassaemia and related diseases.
- KOLKATA: In what could well be the most significant step taken towards eradicating the disease so far, Kolkata will soon have a thalassaemia register with the details of every youngster who belong to the marriageable age group. The Times of India
- A recent survey by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) which is funding the project says nine of every 100 people in Kolkata are affected by beta thalassaemia, which is considerably higher than other metros. The Times of India
- People with sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia are known to have red cells with defects in their outer membranes.