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Hong Kong to investigate girl's death after delayed blood transfusion

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Law·22/05/2026Résumé IA

Hong Kong to investigate girl's death after delayed blood transfusion

Hong Kong's Medical Council and Coroner's Court will investigate the death of an 8-year-old girl, Chau Tin-yu, who died in April 2021 after a delayed blood transfusion during surgery at Queen Mary Hospital. Her father, Eddie Chau, will attend the Medical Council inquiry as a witness, hoping for an impartial hearing and accountability for any personnel found at fault.

China parents conceive baby to collect umbilical cord blood to save daughter with severe disorder

A 15-year-old Chinese girl who has been suffering from a severe blood disorder most of her life is slowly recovering after receiving a transplant from her newborn brother. Xiaoyan from southern China’s Guangdong province is now only 140cm tall, and weighs just 25kg. She was diagnosed with thalassemia, an inherited blood disorder, at three months old. Her father, a construction worker, and her jobless mother did not arrange standard treatment for her except for regular blood transfusions. It was...

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Chinese Scientists Develop Gene Therapy CS-101 Curing Five Beta-Thalassaemia Patients

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Science·28/04/2026Résumé IA

Chinese Scientists Develop Gene Therapy CS-101 Curing Five Beta-Thalassaemia Patients

Scientists at ShanghaiTech University have developed CS-101, a base-editing gene therapy that successfully cured five Chinese patients with beta-thalassaemia. The treatment restored haematopoietic function, raising total haemoglobin and fetal haemoglobin levels, freeing patients from lifelong blood transfusions. China has 30 million thalassaemia gene carriers while the global total reaches 350 million.

Baby Becomes UK's Youngest to Receive Life-Saving Intrauterine Blood Transfusion

Arthur, born in January 2025, became the youngest patient in the UK to receive an intrauterine blood transfusion after contracting parvovirus while still in his mother's womb. Specialists at St George's Hospital performed the procedure when his mother Maisie was 16 weeks pregnant. The 30-year-old primary school teacher from Surrey said it was 50/50 whether her son would survive, but the procedure was successful and he is now a healthy toddler reaching all milestones.

Baby Becomes Youngest in UK to Receive Life-Saving Womb Blood Transfusion

A baby who contracted parvovirus in the womb became the youngest in the UK to receive a life-saving intrauterine blood transfusion. Arthur, now a healthy toddler born in January 2025, received the procedure at 16 weeks pregnancy at St George's Hospital, London. His mother Maisie, a 30-year-old teacher from Surrey, was told it was 50/50 whether he would survive.

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