According to the World Health Organization (WHO), sickle cell disease is a genetic disorder caused by inheriting mutant haemoglobin genes from both parents. Africa records more than 200,000 sickle ...

Often, our sickle cell disease patients choose to join clinical trials — led by world-class specialists from Fred Hutch and UW Medicine — to be able to try the newest therapies that are not available ...

The decision has ushered in a new era for sickle cell disease treatment — and marked the world’s first approval ... from the National Institutes of Health, and a team in Sardinia, Italy ...

In Kenya, as per the World Health Organization (WHO), around 14,000 children are born with sickle cell every year, while globally, the number exceeds 300,000. The symptoms and complications of SCD ...

In Kenya, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that 14,000 children are born with sickle cell each year. Globally, over 300,000 children are born with the condition annually. In the absence ...

They all suffer from sickle cell anaemia, a condition that disproportionately ... a month after the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) approved a new drug that may ...

A Fayetteville teen is making history in North Carolina after undergoing a new gene therapy for sickle cell disease ... they go see a specialist with Duke Health when Aaron was a toddler.

In support of continued sickle cell treatment efforts, civil rights attorney Ben Crump announced a $100,000 donation to Northwell Health.

This requires intensive medical care and monitoring, nursing care, pharmacy support, social work and mental health ... world of difference. Most of all, we’ve seen that with the right care, sick ...