Mumbai: When doctors at Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital in Parel drew blood from a two-and-a-half-month-old baby girl, they froze. Instead of the familiar crimson, the syringe filled with a thick, pinkish liquid.What began as an evaluation for an enlarged heart quickly turned into a race against time to save a child suffering from familial lipoprotein…

Mumbai woke up to an overcast but largely rain-free Thursday morning after days of relentless monsoon showers, offering residents a brief respite from the heavy rain. MUMBAI: Mumbai woke up to an overcast but largely rain-free Thursday morning after days of relentless monsoon showers, offering residents a brief respite from the heavy rain that had…

I remember the early days of our sickle cell work not through files or review meetings but through faces.I remember sitting in a tertiary hospital with parents trying to understand how an inherited blood disease they had never been warned about had entered their children’s lives so early, and so harshly. Many were healthy carriers…