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Crossing the street: Transferring from SickKids to Toronto General Hospital
Want to learn about what happens when you graduate from SickKids? Want to get advice on how to prepare for adult care? This video can help! Find out what it’s like to cross the street from SickKids to Toronto General Hospital from two recent graduates of SickKids’ thalassemia and sickle cell clinics. In this video, Merna and Ryan get to know Toronto General Hospital’s Red Blood Cell Disorders team. See what an adult clinic looks like so you know what to expect at your first appointment

Thalassaemia in Children: From Quality of Care to Quality of Life – Podcast
BMJ Talk Medicine, London

Dr Robert Klaassen, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology
University of Ottawa, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario

Advances In Treatment For Thalassemia: A Rare Genetic Blood Disorder

The Thalassemia Foundation of Canada is pleased to announce the release of the Winter 2014 newsletter. Click here to view the newsletter.

ApoPharma Announces Health Canada Approval of Ferriprox (deferiprone)

TORONTO, Feb. 17, 2015 /CNW/ – ApoPharma Inc., today announced that Health Canada has granted approval of Ferriprox (deferiprone), an oral iron chelator for the treatment of patients with transfusional iron overload due to thalassemia syndromes when current chelation therapy is inadequate. Click here to read the press release.

Article on IV access for thalassemia and sickle cell patients.

Published in the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses Association Newsletter. Written by Kathy Grouchy, RN at BC Children’s Hospital. read more

MPP Introduces Bill to Improve Sickle Cell and Thalassemia Care in Ontario

TORONTO – On Thursday March 10th, 2011, MPP Mike Colle introduced a private member’s bill, Bill 165, Sickle Cell and Thalassemia Care Ontario Act, to establish a provincial body called Sickle Cell and Thalassemia Care Ontario. The Bill is calling for a provincial strategy to develop comprehensive coordinated care, promote awareness, and advocate for individuals living with Sickle Cell and Thalassemia across Ontario. read more

Liberals Champion Action on Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemic Disorders

OTTAWA – In a display of solidarity with Canadians living with rare genetic blood disorders, Dr. Kirsty Duncan tabled her Private Member’s Bill (Bill C-605) on December 13, 2010 calling on the government to create a comprehensive National Strategy for Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemic Disorders. read more