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Dr. David Weatherall to speak at Children's Hospital Aug. 19th

Please join us to honor Sir David Weatherall, MD, who will be receiving the Wallace H. Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hematology. Dr. Weatherall will be visiting Children's Hospital Oakland on Monday, August 19th. He will give a lecture entitled "Inherited Hemoglobin Disorders: An Emerging Global Health Problem" at 5:00 PM in the OPC Auditorium followed by a reception in the OPC Atrium.

Public hearing on behalf of CREAM, tonight at 7pm in Berkeley

CREAM (CreamNation.com) - a Berkeley ice cream sandwich institution needs our help. CREAM has been a huge supporter of  the Thalassemia program at Children's Hospital Oakland in the past year: donating desserts to the Thalassemia holiday party, running a blood drive, and donating to the benefit concert at UC Berkeley.

Please read the attached letter of support and contact the Berkeley City Council in support of this issue.

mayor@CityofBerkeley.info , lmaio@CityofBerkeley.info , dmoore@CityofBerkeley.info , manderson@CityofBerkeley.info, jarreguin@CityofBerkeley.info, lcapitelli@CityofBerkeley.info , swengraf@CityofBerkeley.info, kworthington@CityofBerkeley.info , gwozniak@CityofBerkeley.info 

Thank you!

Laurice Levine, MA, CCLS
Thalassemia Outreach Coordinator
Department of Hematology/Oncology
Children's Hospital Oakland
747 Fifty Second Street
Oakland, CA 94609-1809
Ph: 510-428-3885 x 5427
email: llevine@mail.cho.org

May 2013 issue of Perspectives newsletter

The May 2013 issue of Perspectives is now online. If you would like a free print subscription, please sign up here.

Non-Transfusion-Dependent Thalassemia: new publications

 Guidelines for the Management of Non Transfusion Dependent Thalassemia (NTDT) has recently been published by the Thalassemia International Federation.

Also:  "Non-transfusion-dependent thalassemias", a review article in the June 1, 2013 issue of Haematologica.