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 ...

Max's new medical drama The Pitt featured a patient experiencing intense pain from sickle cell disease, but the show didn't ...

(WRIC) — During Sickle Cell Awareness Month ... which sees more than 1,200 sickle anemia patients from around Virginia. The Red Cross Virginia Region Medical Director Courtney Lawrence said ...

On this map, the distribution of sickle-cell anemia haplotypes among nations with high prevalence of the disease are shown. Five distinct beta-globin haplotypes (indicated by colors) are found in ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

Sickle cell anemia refers to a group of genetic blood disorders that affect a person’s levels of hemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that transports oxygen. Sickle cell anemia causes a ...

Columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye shares a list of things that everyone should know and understand about sickle cell disease.

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 ...

Pediatric patients with sickle cell anemia and a history of abnormal cerebral artery velocities had reduced hospitalizations ...

In The Pitt Season 1 Episode 2, sickle cell disease (SCD) is the main focus, as it brings to light the tough medical and racial challenges that people with this illness have to face every day.