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Donate blood, help people with Thalassemia
With more than 10,000 thalassemic children being born in India every year, experts believe that the largely incurable blood disorder can be easily prevented through greater awareness. May 8 is...
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Complete Blood Count (CBC) Test – what you need to know
One of the most common tests a doctor would ask you to get is a CBC (Complete Blood Count) test. This is advised to measure the counts and concentration of various components of your blood – the red...
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Thalassemia – understanding the disease
May 8th is World Thalassemia Day. We bring you information about the disease, its causes and prevention with help from Thalassemics India, a non-governmental organization working across the country,...
View ArticleBlood donation dries up in the summer (World Blood Donor Day 2012)
June 14 was World Blood Donor Day. Every summer, 10-year-old Aditya’s parents face a tough time trying to arrange two units of ‘A negative’ blood for their thalassemia-afflicted son as the student...
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Sepsis and low platelet count – will the Delhi rape victim recover soon?
The 23-year-old gang rape victim in Delhi is critical because of sepsis and low platelet count. Will she survive it? What are the symptoms that might indicate sepsis? How is it treated? What are the...
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Blood tests: Understanding the basics
Blood plays a vital role in keeping us alive, hale and hearty. It supplies nutrients and oxygen to various organs, muscles and tissues and transports waste products and carbon dioxide away from them....
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Blood tests: Understanding the different kinds
There seem to be scores of hard-to-pronounce, harder-to-remember blood tests that doctors seem to order every time you visit them. So many, that you don’t know if they are actually needed or whether...
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About to get married? Go and get yourself tested for thalassemia
May 14 is World Thalassemia day. While most of the children between the ages of six to ten years are busy playing and enjoying their childhood to the fullest; Amit Shankar (name changed) is lying on a...
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