Orphan Drug Designation is awarded to therapies intended to treat rare diseases that affect fewer than 200,000 people in the ...

As World Blood Donor Day nears, health experts stress the crucial need for Black donors to help patients with sickle cell ...

That can cause severe anemia and profound fatigue ... or other external stressors that affect red blood cell stability. Acute chest syndrome is a serious and potentially fatal complication of sickle ...

As the global community commemorates World Sickle Cell Day today, the spotlight turns to Nigeria-a nation bearing one of the heaviest burdens of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) worldwide.With over 150,000 ...

As a result, symptoms may include painful bone crises, cerebrovascular accidents, acute chest syndrome, sequestration crises, retinal haemorrhage, and priapism. In sickle cell disease, subperiosteal ...

Keywords: extracellular vesicles (EVs), endothelium, sickle cell anemia, circulating endothelial cells (CEC), soluble adhesion molecules, sickle cell pain crisis Citation: Beckman JD, Zhang P, Nguyen ...

Although sickle cell disease (SCD) is not as widespread in the Philippines compared to other populations, it is still worth ...

Patients—often referred to as sickle cell warriors—face numerous health complications, including stroke, acute chest syndrome, and chronic organ damage, that lead to a significantly reduced ...

New Delhi: Researchers in India have developed and validated a scale to measure stigma in a patient suffering from sickle cell disease and their caregivers. Described in a paper in The Lancet ...