The Life of a Sickle Cell Warrior.
Content provided by APO Group on behalf of The Presidency, Republic of Ghana. Originally from African News The Government of Ghana, through the Ministry of Health, Ghana Health Service and other allied agencies, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with global medicines company Novartis to create a new public-private partnership...
JANUARY 24, 2019 BY ALICE MELÃO IN NEWS. Acute vaso-occlusive pain is associated with the onset of menstruation, and about 25% of the women with sickle cell disease can differentiate these episodes from menstrual-cramp pain, a study found. Findings in the study, “Acute Vaso-Occlusive Pain is Temporally Associated with the Onset of Menstruation in Women with...
This news is credited to Sickle Cell Anemia News HOME » VASO-OCCLUSIVE CRISIS Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disorder that is caused by a mutation in the gene encoding for hemoglobin, which is the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. The altered form of hemoglobin in patients with this condition...
Content source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention SCD is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders. Healthy red blood cells are round, and they move through small blood vessels to carry oxygen to all parts of the body. In someone who has SCD, the red blood cells become hard...
This News was originally published by Sickle Cell Anemia News HOME » WHAT IS SICKLE CELL ANEMIA? Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disease that affects red blood cells with an abnormal version of hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen throughout the body. The altered hemoglobin is known as hemoglobin S, or sickle hemoglobin, because...
December 30, 2018 ADDED TO EMAIL ALERTS David A. Williams The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded a $1.5 million grant to Boston Children’s Hospital to research and develop gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease. The research will be directed toward gene therapy methods that can be applied in...
by Audrey Mukoro · Published January 22, 2019 · Last modified January 24, 2019
By Shamaan Freeman-PowellBBC News 21 January 2019 Viewers and people with sickle cell disease have praised TV show Call The Midwife for its storyline portraying the condition. In Sunday’s episode, which is set in 1964, characters Dr Turner and Nurse Trixie Franklin discover that a mysterious disease affecting a young...
by Audrey Mukoro · Published January 17, 2019 · Last modified January 22, 2019
JANUARY 08, 2019 Jennifer Barrett, Associate EditorOfficials with the FDA have granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to Novartis’ crizanlizumab (SEG101) for the prevention of vaso-occlusive crises (VOCs) in patients of all genotypes with sickle cell disease (SCD), according to a press release. Patients with SCD face a high economic burden, with...
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by Audrey Mukoro · Published January 2, 2019 · Last modified January 4, 2019
Recently an advanced lady reached out to us to help her with her warrior daughter who is terribly sick and has been so for some time now.The woman told #ASCF that her daughter has been suffering from an infection for 3 years now and they have done all they could do but...
Without drawing the blood, this device can ascertain whether the patient is affected with the sickle cell disease or not, in just three minutes. By Author Yuvraj Akula With the photoplethysmography technique, the device tests the blood particles using the light rays which pass through a finger. It then figures...
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