The standard approach is regular blood removal, known as venesection or phlebotomy. Removing blood removes mobilises stored iron to make new blood cells, helping to deplete these stores. Initially ...

Therapeutic Venesection Service at Palmerston North Donor Centre. Photo/Supplied. The new Therapeutic Venesection Service at the Palmerston North Donor Centre is now officially open, and early patient ...

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The British Society for Haematology has released a new updated guideline that offers practical guidance for the management of specific situations and complications of polycythemia vera and outlines ...

“Even though one is born with haemochromatosis, one can continue with all life activities, even the extreme ones,” says Anna McCarthy Power, who swam the English Channel in July. A regular swimmer in ...

THE IRISH Haemochromatosis Association (IHA) has written to Minister for Health James Reilly to voice its concern over the axeing of a plan to provide three free-at-point-of-care walk-in clinics for ...