After a long struggle, and with the help of Frank Vella, a biochemist from Singapore University, we found that this child had thalassemia, an inherited blood disease that was thought at the time ...
Patients with beta-thalassemia major (also known as Cooley's anemia) have a reduction or absence of beta protein in their hemoglobin, resulting in severe anemia, which requires regular blood ...
The sNDA is supported by data from the phase 3 ENERGIZE and ENERGIZE-T studies, which evaluated mitapivat vs placebo in patients with NTD and TD alpha- or beta-thalassemia, respectively.
Last year, the U.K.'s National Health System (NHS) began offering stem cell transplants to adults with transfusion-dependent thalassemia for the first time. An evidence review from the NHS ...