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Discussion Forums => Greetings => Topic started by: Kathy11 on December 31, 2007, 01:17:08 PM

Title: HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
Post by: Kathy11 on December 31, 2007, 01:17:08 PM

[bgcolor=#00ff00]I WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR AND MAY THE YEAR BE FULL OF PEACE AND GOOD HEALTH. :veil :veil :veil :martini :martini :martini :martini :food :food :food :food :goodluck :goodluck

I take this opportunity to thank each and everyone of you whom contributed to enhance my daily life with your kindness and undestanding.
with all my love to all
Kathy[/bgcolor]

Title: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MEMBERS OF THIS FORUM.
Post by: Manal on December 31, 2007, 01:48:37 PM

Thanks a lot Kathy for the congratulations and same to you :wub . This is also a chance for me to thank you for all the times you standed by me with your wise posts and with your wishes

Much love to you and and your family

Manal

 :bigparty :yay

Title: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MEMBERS OF THIS FORUM.
Post by: Canadian_Family on December 31, 2007, 02:45:21 PM

Happy New Year to all the Members.

Title: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MEMBERS OF THIS FORUM.
Post by: §ãJ¡Ð ساجد on December 31, 2007, 03:28:03 PM

Have a Healthy, Happy, Prosperous and Peaceful New Year! Everyone!

:party :party :party :party

Title: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MEMBERS OF THIS FORUM.
Post by: Andy Battaglia on December 31, 2007, 04:11:07 PM

I would like to wish all a very Happy New Year!

Let's pray that this is the year that we finally hear of success in finding a cure for thalassemia. In June, gene therapy trials on humans are planned to start. By autumn we should have some word on how successful it has been. Let's hope that the TIF conference in October is all abuzz with the word of success of these trials!  :thumbsup

Title: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MEMBERS OF THIS FORUM.
Post by: §ãJ¡Ð ساجد on December 31, 2007, 04:23:28 PM

Insha Allah!
Aameen!
Amen!

:happyyes

Title: HAPPY NEW YEAR
Post by: Sharmin on December 31, 2007, 06:53:58 PM

Happy New Year to everyone, everywhere.

May everyone find happiness, peace and good health in the year to come!!!

Love,
Sharmin

Title: HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
Post by: red on December 31, 2007, 07:10:35 PM

HAPPY NEW YEARS FRIENDS!
HOPE EVERYONE HAS AN AWSOME NIGHT AND MAY YOUR YEAR AHEAD BE BLESSED WITH HEALTH ADVENTURE FUN AND AWSOME TIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 :bigparty
LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Title: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
Post by: Sharmin on January 01, 2008, 04:28:22 AM

Happy New Year Red & everyone else!!

Title: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR
Post by: Zaini on January 01, 2008, 12:30:26 PM

Wishing you the best Sharmin,for every year of your life :)

ZAINI.

Title: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
Post by: Zaini on January 01, 2008, 12:36:31 PM

Hi Red,

May you have peace,fun and health in every coming year of your life :)

ZAINI.

Title: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
Post by: Lena on January 01, 2008, 07:03:41 PM

Happy new year to everyone!

health-joy-creativity.
With us health always comes first as a wish.But we are not to forget besides being thals we are normal people who need to be joyful and creative. Thalassaemia cannot hold us hostages.

So,

Happy new year to Abareen. The sun always shines in the end.

and

Happy new year to you Andy,
I was wondering how things are going with gene therapy because here in Greece we have a centre that deals with it and first phase has been completed. You are talking about tests in June. In which country? give us an idea of where things stand.

Title: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
Post by: hippievamp on January 01, 2008, 11:53:08 PM

Wishes for a happy and healthy new year to all!  and may this be a year of increased hemoglobin and decreased feritan!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quote from: Andy on December 31, 2007, 04:11:07 PM

I would like to wish all a very Happy New Year!

Let's pray that this is the year that we finally hear of success in finding a cure for thalassemia. In June, gene therapy trials on humans are planned to start. By autumn we should have some word on how successful it has been. Let's hope that the TIF conference in October is all abuzz with the word of success of these trials!  :thumbsup

Title: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
Post by: Manal on January 01, 2008, 11:58:25 PM

Hi Lena and happy new year

Would you please explain to us what does the first phase of gene therapy done in Greece consist of and was it done one humans????????

Manal

Title: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
Post by: Andy Battaglia on January 02, 2008, 12:11:04 AM

Hi Lena,

We have been following the progress towards the beginning of gene therapy trials in our threads at http://www.thalassemiapatientsandfriends.com/index.php?topic=1114.0  and http://www.thalassemiapatientsandfriends.com/index.php?topic=1115.0

The trials are slated to be done at Sloan-Kettering in New York and the National Institute of health (NIH).

Do you know if the results of the first phase of the Greek trials have been published yet, or what the outcome is to this date?

Title: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
Post by: Lena on January 03, 2008, 07:53:17 AM

Sabah al her Manal.
Kaif al hal?Ana aalamtou al arabi maa moalem misri , oualakin ana afham al fosha, la al aameyia. Ana saoufa atakalam fy al inglezi al'an oua kol shahs yiafham.

In Greece there has been clinical studies in 3 thalassaemia major patients and it was announced in the Panhellenic Haematology Conference last November that they are now in the level of evaluating the stem cells they took.

You see Manal, in phase A patient is made to overproduce stem cells so that it is in those cells that the gene will be inserted(phase B).
 
Andy,

Nothing else is known, nothing is published   
Things go slowly in Greece but what about France? I have heard or read - I cannot remember-that phase two was completed there with three patients.

Title: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
Post by: Manal on January 03, 2008, 12:13:29 PM

Waw Lena you speak very good Arabic :thumbsup, i am really amazed as Arabic is really so difficult, but why were you interested in Arabic?

Anyway thank you for the reply and hope things would go much faster.

Shoukran ya lena  :wink

manal

Title: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
Post by: Lena on January 05, 2008, 08:01:33 AM

 Hi Manal,

I have sent a message to answer your questions 2-3 days ago but I cannot find it anywhere. Maybe I post it wrong. I even talked to you arabic in the beginning, as I have been studing arabic for seven years with an egyptian teacher.

Well, you see phase A in Greece consists of taking the thals (3 now) and by medication and special diet make their body produce stem cells which doctors get and try to evaluate.
That is the point we stand now. Then they have to insert the healthy gene to the red cells they took and back to the patient to see what happens.

Andy,


I know there is no publication yet. But have you heard where things stand  in France?There phase two has been completed.

Title: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
Post by: Lena on January 05, 2008, 08:16:22 AM

Hi again Manal,
I just traced my message and your reply so do not take notice of my previous message.
As to your question about arabic: I love oum kalthoum and naguib mahfouz , I have been to Egypt twice, last was this summer for some lessons in Alexandria and I have been to other arabic speaking countries as well.This means I am enchanted with arabic culture.
In Greece I translate arabic literature for a big publishing house. I have translated Gamal al Ghitani which I consider a great author, now I am in the middle of translating a book by Sahar Khalifa "rabaa har".

Salam,
lena

Title: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
Post by: Manal on January 05, 2008, 02:11:28 PM

Hi Lena :hugfriend

I am really soooooo impressed and by the way loving oum kalthoum and naguib mahfouz  means you are a true Egyptian :biggrin.  I too love to go tol Alexandria and i love the old Greek restaurants there. Anyway i am so pleased to know that and i hope one day we could meet when you visit Egypt again

Much love to you
Manal

Title: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
Post by: Lena on January 05, 2008, 05:56:57 PM

Shokrun Manal

for your kind words. Insallah we'll meet one day.

ma salama,
lena.