A man and woman, both with sickle cell, share what their experience was like finding love, and what prospective partners need ...
Sickle cell trait (SCT) differs vastly from sickle cell disease. SCT is a genetic condition when someone inherits one sickle ...
Earlier this year, STAT’s Eric Boodman reported the heartbreaking story of how, for decades, doctors have pressured sickle ...
Current sickle cell disease treatment options include: A cornerstone of SCD treatment since 1988, hydroxyurea works by increasing the production of hemoglobin F, which helps prevent the formation of ...
Hemolytic anemia can be inherited or acquired. Some of the most common types include sickle cell anemia, thalassemia, and autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Your body naturally gets rid of aging or ...
Patients with sickle cell anemia (SCA) and persistent albuminuria (PA) exhibited significantly higher levels of urinary ...
Many people use the terms “sickle cell disease (SCD)” and “sickle cell anemia (SCA)” interchangeably. However, SCA is one type of SCD. It’s the most common and most severe type.
The RUBY Trial is showing promise in treating patients fighting sickle cell disease, and Ohio is setting a national standard ...
A Johns Hopkins analysis commissioned by STAT shows that the rate of postpartum sterilization is significantly higher in ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Sickle Cell Anemia is a rare disease without a cure. The people sickle cell anemia affects are more than 90% African American or non-Hispanic Black. September is Sickle ...
Last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission to eliminate sickle cell disease as a public health problem by 2047, from Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh.
(Bloomberg) -- European regulators suspended the approval of Pfizer Inc.’s sickle cell anemia drug, Oxbryta, citing a higher rate of disease complications in patients who started taking it.