Efforts to wipe–out childhood anaemia fall short
An international study has found that a global target to eradicate childhood anemia by 2030 will fail, presenting a major public health challenge.
Aug 13, 2021
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An international study has found that a global target to eradicate childhood anemia by 2030 will fail, presenting a major public health challenge.
Aug 13, 2021
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Aplastic anaemia is characterised by a reduction in the number of the bone marrow cells that go on to form the different cell types present in blood (essentially red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets). In most ...
Aug 29, 2012
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A healthy adult must generate as many as one hundred billion new red blood cells each day, to maintain the numbers circulating in his blood. A team of EPFL researchers has identified a key step in the process by which red ...
Mar 14, 2013
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Sickle cell anaemia is most common in Africa and up to 11,000 children are born with the condition every year in Tanzania alone. Yet most of what is known about the genetic basis of this inherited disease comes from studies ...
Nov 6, 2014
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Early clinical trials of an innovative new therapeutic protein could one day lead to better treatment for anaemia of chronic disease patients.
Aug 12, 2015
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From the start of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been an attempt to use science to explain the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on different groups through the prism of race. Data from the UK and the US suggests that ...
May 28, 2020
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Young children living in remote Indigenous communities have long been known to suffer from iron deficiency and anaemia at many times the rates found among other Australian children. Now a new report shows rates of anaemia ...
Sep 4, 2013
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A quarter of households in refugee camps in Algeria are currently suffering from the double burden of excess weight and under-nutrition. According to a study published in the journal PLOS Medicine, obesity is an emerging ...
Oct 2, 2012
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Restricting blood transfusion in anemic heart attack patients to those with very low hemoglobin levels saves blood with no negative impact on clinical outcomes. That's the finding of the REALITY trial presented in a Hot Line ...
Sep 2, 2020
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Iron deficiency can be fatal. But in countries where patients are also likely to have other serious diseases, so too can the iron supplements used to treat it. Nearly 12 years ago, Dora Pereira – sometimes referred to as ...
Feb 6, 2017
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