A six-year-old girl, Hasnat, from Afghanistan, was treated for thalassemia major (also known as Beta Thalassemia) through a bone marrow transplant from her five-year-old sister, at a Delhi hospital recently. The procedure, earlier known to treat cancers like leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma, is now increasingly recognized as an effective treatment option for genetic blood diseases. Hasnat was diagnosed with thalassemia major when…
In 2014, Christiana Donkor, a young woman from Nigeria, struggled to walk a few blocks from her home to a bus stand on her way to the airport. Suitcase in hand, she moved at a snail’s pace as she experienced severe exhaustion due to a flare-up of her sickle cell disease. One step at a time, she finally made it, propelled by…
How much sugar is too much sugar? Even one pack of M&M’s may be more than you should eat in a day, newly drafted guidelines from the World Health Organization suggest. The WHO used to recommend that you get no more than 10% of your daily calories from sugar, but now they’re considering lowering that to 5%. For an average,…
Sickle Cell Diseases In today’s busy and hectic schedule, where people do not have time for caring about their health which can cause lots of diseases to them which apparently affects their body and weaken their health but sometimes they get busy in their life in such a way, that they even ignore the symptoms of the diseases and at…
Sickle cell anemia is a blood-related disease, which is hereditary and children get this disease from their parents. The disease is found in Americans especially those whose origin is African. In this disease, the structure of hemoglobin is changed which makes the red blood cells stiff and the cells are converted into sickle form. Patients can go to BMT Clinic for the treatment.…
Gurgaon, Haryana, India: Doctors at BMT Clinic treated a six-year-old Afghan girl, Hasnat, suffering from thalassemia major (also known as beta thalassemia), through Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT). The procedure, earlier known to treat some types of cancers like leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma, is now increasingly recognized as an effective treatment option for genetic blood diseases like thalassemia major. Hasnat was diagnosed with…
