Sep. 12, 2024 — Researchers have found that being a carrier for sickle cell disease, known as having sickle cell trait, increases the risk of blood clots, a risk that is the same among diverse ...

Over 300 abnormal hemoglobins — such as sickle cell hemoglobin — have been discovered, most of which are either neutral or harmful to their carriers, and numerous thalassemias, which result ...

SAFETY PROGRAM. TIME FOR FIVE ON YOUR HEALTH. WE’RE FOCUSING ON SICKLE CELL DISEASE. IT IS A PAINFUL, INHERITED CONDITION THAT PRIMARILY AFFECTS AFRICAN AMERICANS. HERE WITH SOME INSIGHT IS ...

At Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, we care for adults with sickle cell disease. Along with our local patients, we see many people from farther away, like Alaska. They get most of their care near home, ...

Why Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Is Slow to Catch on With Patients By Deena Beasley LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Student Zoe Davis, 20, was just weeks into her junior year when she landed back in the ...

Tracy Katusiime, 22, a teacher from Wakiso District was born with sickle cell disorder. She says she takes at least two different types of medicines every day to manage the condition.

Sickle cells grow into crescent shapes, instead of the round red blood cells seen in people without the gene New research suggests that the history of sickle-cell disease goes back to a mutation ...

Sickle cell disease can cause various eye-related complications, including retinopathy. If untreated, sickle cell retinopathy can cause permanent vision loss. Treatments include laser therapy and ...

Can we predict that natural selection will weed out genetic disease over time? Sickle-cell trait haplotype distribution shows the genetic advantages of this mutation. In the deoxygenated ...

Pfizer said Wednesday that it was removing Oxbryta, a pill for the treatment of sickle cell disease, from all markets globally due to high risks of severe safety events, including deaths.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- There's new hope for people with sickle cell disease, which affects mainly African Americans. It's gene therapy research at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia that's being ...

The UAB Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center brings together scholars and researchers working in the forefront of basic, translational and clinical research, with the overarching goals to discover new ...