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  Baby Makes Three: Thalassemia Care Pays Off
  Thriving with Thalassemia: Toby and Nicholas Turn Seven
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Baby Makes Three: Thalassemia Care Pays Off
Image Annmarie Little was 15 months old when her parents realized she had a problem. They were tickling her belly when her mom, then a nurse's aide, noticed that her spleen was enlarged. They took her to Children's Hospital Boston, and today, more than 30 years later, she's still a patient here.
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Thriving with Thalassemia: Toby and Nicholas Turn Seven
Image Soccer, street hockey, computer games and television are all typical trappings of 7-year-old boys. Though they love all of these things, brothers Nicholas and Toby are anything but typical. First of all, it's nearly impossible to tell the adorable identical twins apart. What's far less obvious is that both of the boys have a rare and severe form of hemoglobin H disease, a type of thalassemia. Read More
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