Patients with sickle cell disorder and thalassaemia are now being encouraged to take a new “blood matching” test alongside their routine hospital blood tests to mitigate the side effects of blood transfusion. The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) says it’s the first healthcare system in the world to provide such a test. Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders that affects red blood cells and can cause organ damage and severe pain. Blood tests can diagnose Alzheimer’s as accurately as spinal punctures and better than brain scansThalassaemia is a rarer blood disorde…