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 ...

“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 ...

When we think about iron imbalance, most people are familiar with iron deficiency and the health problems it can cause. What many may not realise is that the opposite problem, iron overload, can be ...

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 ...

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IT has been described as 'bronze diabetes' and even 'the Celtic curse', but despite an estimated 40,000 Irish people suffering from it, the potentially life-threatening condition of haemochromatosis ...

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 ...

The West Tyrone MLA is among many people in the North West who live with the condition. Four years ago free screening was rolled out in Derry city where 1,000 people in the city were known to have the ...