How to Use thalassemia in a Sentence

thalassemia

noun

• In 1986, the number of babies born with beta- thalassemia dropped to zero.
  — Krithika Varagur, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• Angiogram data was not present for most of the cases, and only a few had tests for thalassemia.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2022
• To get around this problem, the researchers behind the new work obtained blood stem cells from patients with β-thalassemia and sickle-cell disease.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2020
• In beta thalassemia, the hemoglobin part of red blood cells, which is supposed to pick up oxygen from the lungs and distribute it to the cells in the rest of the body, doesn’t work properly.
  — Time, 6 Aug. 2019
• The first team to achieve a genetic rewrite of sickle cell and of thalassemia, a related blood disorder, will hit the jackpot.
  — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2016
• In a study of beta thalassemia patients, 54 patients have so far received Casgevy.
  — WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
• For rows with thalassemia or angiogram data present (and none of them had both), the accuracy went up to 71 percent—not great, but not terrible.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2022
• Cesar was diagnosed at birth with thalassemia, a blood disease.
  — Rachelle Krygier, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2018
• Aliyana has sickle beta plus thalassemia, a form that is often considered milder.
  — Cassie Owens, Philly.com, 17 May 2018
• Saturday’s results were on the first 10 patients, seven with beta thalassemia and three with sickle cell.
  — NBC News, 7 Dec. 2020
• Saturday's results were on the first 10 patients, seven with beta thalassemia and three with sickle cell.
  — Marion Renault, Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
• The median age of death of those with beta thalassemia, which is typically diagnosed within a few weeks of birth, is 37.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• People who suffer from thalassemia or sickle cell disease have red blood cells that are unable to carry oxygen.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• For the next three years, the blood transfusions and thalassemia medications were the easiest part of Shelby’s medical care.
  — Brittany Trang, STAT, 13 Dec. 2023
• With a slight tweak, Qasim says, this gene therapy could be applied to other cancers, and even genetic diseases like thalassemia.
  — Madhumita Murgia, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2016
• Scientists there have used the tool to treat dozens of people with sickle cell anemia and beta thalassemia—two common blood disorders.
  — WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022
• Those launches, taking place over the next few years, are slated to include a medicine called Exa-cel to treat sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia as well as another drug for acute pain.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
• There are various types of thalassemias, or inherited blood disorders, and mine is the most severe.
  — Joelle Zarcone, SELF, 12 July 2019
• More than a year later those improvements persisted in five subjects with beta thalassemia and two with sickle cell.
  — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2021
• Take the treatment for beta thalassemia, a genetic disease characterized by a shortage of healthy red blood cells, which leads to anemia.
  — David Wainer, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2022
• Most people with severe anemia from thalassemia require red blood cell transfusions every two to three weeks.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 18 Apr. 2018
• All of these patients entered the study with severe beta-thalassemia that required frequent blood transfusions.
  — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 15 June 2018
• Beti-cel helped people with the rare blood disease beta-thalassemia stay off blood transfusions by supplying them with a gene needed to ferry oxygen throughout the body.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2022
• The health care system gains greatly from costs avoided, which, in the case of transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia, can add up to millions of dollars over a patient’s lifetime.
  — Nick Leschly, STAT, 26 Nov. 2019
• This type of gene disruption — called non-homologous end joining — is being used in sickle-cell and thalassemia trials.
  — Fox News, 13 June 2018
• The drug is for patients with a blood disorder called beta thalassemia who require regular blood transfusions.
  — WIRED, 5 Dec. 2022
• In the case of Zynteglo for beta thalassemia, this means living longer with a better quality of life than could be expected with existing treatments.
  — Nick Leschly, STAT, 26 Nov. 2019
• The first published work involving human embryos, reported in 2015, was done in China and targeted a gene that leads to the blood disorder beta thalassemia.
  — Ariana Eunjung Cha, chicagotribune.com, 2 Aug. 2017
• Southeast Asia also has some of the world’s highest rates of thalassemia, a genetic disorder that hampers the blood’s ability to transport oxygen, and has contributed to some child deaths.
  — New York Times, 14 Aug. 2021
• Don’t miss Brittany Trang’s compelling story about seven-year-old Shelby Campbell’s life — and her family’s — while being treated for beta thalassemia with gene therapy.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 13 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024