What your blood says
Blood & Hematology
Anaemia, sickle cell disease, thalassaemia, clotting disorders: understanding blood tests, symptoms and modern treatments.
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Iron Deficiency Anemia: Find the Cause, Not Just the Pill
Iron deficiency is the most common nutritional deficit worldwide, but in adults the bleeding source matters.
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Iron Deficiency Anemia: When Lack of Iron Exhausts the Body
Fatigue, shortness of breath, pallor, brittle hair: iron deficiency anemia affects 30% of the world's population, especially women and children.
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Sickle cell disease: the world's leading genetic disease
Hydroxyurea, transfusions, gene therapy: advances against sickle cell disease.
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Iron deficiency: the most common cause of unexplained fatigue
Why treating low iron means finding out why it is low.
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Thalassaemia: an inherited anaemia explained simply
Why thalassaemia causes lifelong anaemia, how minor and major forms differ, and what treatment involves.
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Haemophilia: when blood does not clot properly
What causes haemophilia A and B, why joints are the main target, and how prophylaxis prevents damage.
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Sickle cell crises: understanding the pain and how to prevent it
How a vaso-occlusive crisis happens, the triggers to avoid, and treatments that reduce their frequency.
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Vitamin B12 deficiency: fatigue with a neurological warning
Why deficiency develops silently, who is at risk, and why treatment must not be delayed.
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Haemochromatosis: too much iron in the body
Why iron accumulates, the organs it damages, and how venesection prevents all of it.
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G6PD deficiency: when certain foods and drugs destroy red cells
Which triggers to avoid, how a haemolytic crisis presents, and why the condition is otherwise silent.