Hemoglobin is essential for carrying oxygen ... There are two main types of thalassemia: alpha and beta thalassemia, each ...

An essential factor in distinguishing thalassemia phenotypes is transfusion dependence. While beta-thalassemia major requires life-long blood transfusions for survival, non-transfusion-dependent ...

I owe my long interest in inherited blood diseases and tropical medicine to a series of characteristically bizarre decisions by the British Army. In 1958, 2 years after qualifying in medicine from ...