India’s first kidney transplant for a patient with rare ‘Bombay’ blood group successfully performed in Mumbai hospital
The recipient, a 30-year-old woman from Shirdi, had been suffering from end-stage kidney disease due to diabetes and had been ...
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Celebrities Swear by NAD+ Infusions—Do They Really Slow Down Aging?
Celebrities and wellness influencers are getting routine NAD+ infusions as an anti-aging hack, but are these expensives IV drips worth the hype?
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Gene Therapy May Be a Game Changer for Transfusion-Dependent Thalassemia
The FDA approved betibeglogene autotemcel (beti-cel; Zynteglo) for adult and pediatric patients with transfusion-dependent ...
Ambulance blood transfusions can save lives, but few are equipped
More than 60,000 people bleed to death every year in the U.S. Many of those deaths occur before the patient reaches a trauma ...
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A qualitative study of community perceptions and practices relating to blood donation in Cameroon
Introduction Blood and blood products are essential for patients in need of transfusion therapy, especially those undergoing ...
New 'all-tablet' treatment shows promise for common form of leukemia
An international study published in the New England Journal of Medicine provides hope for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) ...
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Denali eyes approval after Hunter syndrome drug clears safety measures, reduces biomarkers in open-label study
After winning a breakthrough therapy designation for its Hunter syndrome enzyme replacement therapy, Denali Therapeutics is ...
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2seventy bio Reports Preliminary* Full-Year U.S. Abecma Sales and Select Financial Results
Inc. (Nasdaq: TSVT) today provided full-year Abecma® (idecabtagene vicleucel; ide-cel) sales results for 2024, in partnership with Brist ...
'Our 1-year-old was dismissed as just pale and ginger before doctors found deadly cancer'
Parents Jon and Danielle Love became concerned when their son Myles became unwell in September 2023 after he had stopped ...
Launch Thalassemia Bharat Mukt Abhiyan, Thalassemia advocacy group urges Nadda
As India remains the thalassemia capital of the world, the Thalassemia Patients Advocacy Group (TPAG) has written an open ...
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Beti-cel gene therapy achieves high rates of transfusion independence in severe β-thalassemia
There were no serious adverse events or treatment-related mortalities. Evidence Rating Level: 2 (Good) Study Rundown: Transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia (TDT) is a condition that results in iron ...
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ICFO diffuse optics improves blood transfusion monitoring
Transfusions of red blood cells (RBCs) can be life-saving treatments for patients suffering from anemia, where the body lacks enough healthy RBCs to effectively deliver oxygen around the body. But the ...