EHA-funded study in The Lancet Haematology: Economic Burden of Blood Disorders in EU is €23 billion

In Europe blood disorders affect around 80 million people. The total cost of blood disorders consists of healthcare expenditure (€15. 6 billion), productivity loss due to illness and mortality (€5. 6 billion), and the costs of informal care (€1.

EHA returns to Cairo with the Highlights of the 24th EHA Congress

The 4th Highlights of Past EHA (HOPE) Middle East & North Africa (MENA) took place (for the third time) in Cairo, Egypt, organized in collaboration with the Pan Arab Hematology Association (PAHA) and hosted by the Egyptian Society of Hematology…

Horizon 2020: The European Commission proposes the successor to Framework Programme 7

Horizons 2020 will pay “particular attention to ensuring a broad approach to innovation, which is not only limited to the development of new products and services on the basis of scientific and technological breakthroughs, but which also incorporates aspects such…

The ‘i4MDS’ consortium looks to the future at its second general meeting

The International Integrative Innovative Immunology for Myelodysplastic Neoplasms consortium—also known as ‘i4MDS’—held its second general meeting in The Hague from February 9–10, 2024.

Second EHA-SAH tutorial in Argentina, another success

Hematologists from South America and mainland US gathered in Argentina on September 14-15 for brain-stretching exercises on the topics of lymphoid malignancies and plasma cell dyscrasias.

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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