Even as medical science strives to find a cure for thalassemia making genetic carrier testing more prevalent among would-be parents can drastically reduce the occurrence of this inherited disease in the population.. On the eve of World Thalassemia Day the scientific team at the Bengaluru-based genomic diagnostics and research firm MedGenome Labsstressed that ALL couples getting married should undergo carrier testing and genetic counselling routinely and this is even more critical in the case of Thalassemia. “Would-be parents who are carriers of the disease are at a greater risk of having a child with Thalassemia Major especially if they are married