Avoiding Spleen Removal For Cooley's Anemia Sufferers
Friday, July 18, 2008 - 08:28
in Health & Medicine
Researchers may have discovered the precise role of a gene in one of the world's most common blood disorders, beta-thalassemia, commonly known as Cooley's anemia. Along with sickle-cell anemia, Cooley's anemia is the most commonly inherited disease in the world, affecting many people of Mediterranean descent, and 20 out of every 100,000 African-Americans.