Michael Connarty (Falkirk East, Labour) asked for ex-gratia payments to the families of haemophilia sufferers.
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DOWN'S syndrome, muscular dystrophy and haemophilia may be among the best-known genetic diseases, but they are most certainly not alone.
Amid the shortage, Iranians in need of the chemotherapy, cardiac, diabetes, haemophilia and other drugs have turned to the large Iranian diaspora for informal help.
Labour peer Lord Morris, honorary president of the Haemophilia Society, asked how many people may have been affected and what services had been offered to patients.
Genetic disorders, such as cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and haemophilia, are caused by mutant variations of normal genes which are unable to perform their proper function.
And in two of these patients the factor VIII levels were high enough to bring the level of their disease from "severe" to either "mild or moderate" haemophilia.
Mrs Murphy gave up work to be a full-time carer for her husband and because of his haemophilia they were unable to take out insurance policies or mortgage protection.
The ultrasound and other technologies that identify the sex of a fetus started out as diagnostic devices to help people with sex-linked diseases, such as haemophilia, conceive healthy children.
When war broke out in 1939, Freeborn temporarily gave up his fledgling career to train as a fighter pilot, only to almost lose his life to Asian flu and haemophilia.
"We will be working with organisations such as the Haemophilia Society and Hepatitis C Trust on this to help ensure the procedures are as user friendly as possible, " Mr Reid said.
In a highly publicised case, a 15-year-old boy from a nomadic tribe in Iran's south-western province of Khuzestan died in July of haemophilia because his family did not have access to medicine.
The team, led by Dr David Roth, director of haemophilia research at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, said the test has been carried out on another six patients, but that these results are not ready.
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