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News items on 'Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura'

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Frightening ITP is manageable with right help

(The Scotsman 12/05/2009)

A FLURRY of headlines appeared early last year when the young Scots tennis star Jamie Baker, a close friend of Andy and Jamie Murray, was "struck down by a deadly blood disorder" at a tournament in America and rushed to hospital. The disorder is called immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and it's a disease where the immune system goes haywire and attacks the platelets in your blood.

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