The facility aims to detect severe genetic diseases in unborn babies during pregnancy and support families with counselling and informed reproductive choices. Ranchi: The Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) conducted only 26 prenatal tests in the past year, though its genetics and genomics department has been offering free prenatal diagnosis for disorders like thalassemia…
New Delhi : Five-year-old Bhavya knew hospitals better than playgrounds. Diagnosed with severe sickle cell disease in infancy, he endured repeated episodes of excruciating pain, hospital admissions and was dependent on blood transfusions.Every few months, his family would rush him to hospital as the inherited blood disorder disrupted what should have been a normal childhood.Today,…
An awareness rally taken out on the occasion of World Sickle Cell Awareness Day in Ranchi Ranchi: Health experts on the eve of World Sickle Cell Awareness Day on Thursday have stressed the need for universal antenatal screening of pregnant women during the first trimester to curb the spread of genetic blood disorders such as…
