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Press Release: Economic burden of blood disorders in EU is €23 billion

The economic burden of blood disorders across the European Union, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland amounts to €23 billion per year.

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Highlights from the SWG

SWG Session at EHA2023ELN-EHA SWG for CML: CML: modelling the futureChairJane Apperley (United Kingdom)

Topics and presenters
Identifying new targets for BCR::ABL1 inhibition: Oliver Hantschel (Germany). Dissecting phylogenetic trees in CML: Aleksandra Kamizela (United Kingdom).

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EHA-SWG Scientific Meeting on Granulocytes and Constitutional Marrow Failure Syndromes

The second scientific meeting on EHA-SWG Scientific Meeting on Granulocytes and Constitutional Marrow Failure Disorders and Leukemia Predisposing Genes was held on October 10-12, 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic.

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Genome sequencing of thousands of patients with rare blood disorders

Approximately 3M people have a rare bleeding disorder or disease of platelets, which are the cell fragments that help blood clot. The genetic causes of dozens of such disorders are known (e. g.

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Highlights of Past EHA (HOPE) Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 2021 - report

The sixth HOPE MENA, with highlights of the EHA Annual Congress, successfully concluded September 23-24. Fully virtual for the second year in a row, the program was compiled together with eight regional partner societies.

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EHA Guidelines by Topic

AL Amyloidosis
Guidelines for high dose chemotherapy and stem cell transplantation for systemic AL amyloidosis: EHA-ISA working group guidelines (2021)
Guidelines for non-transplant chemotherapy for treatment of systemic AL amyloidosis: EHA-ISA working group (2022)
Anemia
Recommendations regarding splenectomy in hereditary hemolytic anemias (2017)
Management of…

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SGN-CD33A Combined with Hypomethylating Therapy Produces High Remission Rates among Older Patients with AML

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive form of blood cancer in which the majority of cases express CD33 on the surface of the leukemia cells.

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A new form of inherited thrombocytopenia (ETV6-related thrombocytopenia, ETV6-RT): NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER!

A new form of inherited thrombocytopenia (ETV6-related thrombocytopenia, ETV6-RT): NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER!

We recently discovered a new form of an inherited deficiency of platelets (inherited thrombocytopenia-IT), which is caused by mutations in the ETV6-gene.

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Hans Erik Johnsen 1948-2018

On May 17, 2018, just after his 70th birthday, Hans Erik Johnsen passed away. Hans Johnsen was Professor of Clinical Hematology at the Department of Hematology at Aalborg University in Denmark.

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New GFI1B variants in bleeding and platelet disorders

Platelets restrict blood loss upon vessel damage by formation of a clot (thrombus). Recently, we reported a family with a bleeding and platelet disorder (BPD), which was caused by a defect in the gene GFI1B1.

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