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Selected news releases from Weill Cornell Medical College

These releases are produced by the press office of the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College in New York City. Other releases concerning the medical college will be found on the Weill Cornell Web site at http://www.med.cornell.edu

For the full text of any story, click on the title. Electronic queries can be made to Jonathan Weil.

2006 releases in this category >>>

Scientists identify mechanism driving iron overload in blood disease beta-thalassemia
Led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, an international group of scientists has pinpointed a specific genetic relationship as the cause of dangerous iron overload in persons with a form of the inherited blood disease, beta-thalassemia.