Sickle cell disease affects millions of children every year, many of them African American. Keep yourself, family and loved ones healthy by knowing and sharing the facts. In the United States, most ...

Image from cdc.gov Recessive and dominant alleles are especially important to understand and analyze in terms of chronic diseases, like sickle cell. Sickle cell is a chronic condition that causes red ...

The National Director/ Chief Excusive Officer (CEO), Sickle Cell Foundation Nigeria (SCFN) Dr Annette Akinsete, has assured Nigerians that sickle cell disorder (SCD), is not a death sentence as it ...

Rilzabrutinib is an investigational, oral reversible Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug designation to rilzabrutinib for the treatment ...

The CEO of the African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE), Brian Deaver, has disclosed that the Ford Foundation has attracted $75 million in donations to AMCE for subsidizing the cost of treating and ...

Sickle cell anemia, a genetic disease caused by a mutation in the beta-globin gene, can present oral manifestations such as delayed tooth eruption and hypomineralized enamel and dentin. The aim of the ...

A 30-year-old New Jersey woman was charged with two felonies after police said she lied about having sickle cell anemia and refused to pay for over $560,000 in treatment from a hospital in ...

Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a devastating hemolytic disease, ...

marking a national breakthrough in stigma research related to sickle cell disease, said the JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research (JSS AHER), Mysuru. “It (the study) is a milestone in ...

In 1991, Leandra “Lea” Armstead was diagnosed as a newborn with sickle cell disease, a condition that can lead to complications such as stroke and sudden episodes of intense pain. For Lea, the ...

For the first time in his life, a young New Jersey man is pain-free thanks to a new gene treatment working to cure patients of sickle cell disease. Gerald Quartey, 18, is the first patient in the ...