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Thalassemia is a serious but preventable genetic blood disorder that affects the body’s ability to produce normal haemoglobin ...
In what she called a shock, columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye learned some parents give birth to children with sickle cell. Then ...
West Palm Beach proposes giving the historic Jenkins House to the Sickle Cell Foundation, led by City Commissioner Shalonda Warren. The city would also provide $350,000 for renovations to the ...
A gene therapy recently approved by the FDA to treat patients with Sickle Cell Anemia is now being administered in St. Louis.
In children with sickle cell disease, hemoglobin and sickle cell hemoglobin (HbS) should be measured at presentation with arterial ischemic stroke (D). Urgent exchange transfusion should be ...
While generally considered benign, sickle cell trait (SCT) is both common and associated with a risk of sudden exertional death. Indeed, all high-level US intercollegiate athletes now face mandatory ...
"Sickle cell largely affects patients from African and African-Caribbean backgrounds, who are less likely to have a matching stem cell donor, and this community has been waiting years for a new ...
Novo Nordisk has doubled down on position in the sickle cell disease (SCD) category with a $1.1 billion agreement to acquire Forma Therapeutics, and its therapeutic candidate etavopivat ...
The vast majority of these patients had either hemoglobin SC or hemoglobin SS subtypes of sickle cell disease. "We found that for patients who had non retinal detachment indications for surgery, that ...
State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China ...