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.

At Fred Hutch Cancer Center, we care for adults with sickle cell disease. Along with our local patients, we see many people from farther away, like Alaska. They get most of their care near home, but ...

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 ...

Dr Kazibwe attributes the severity of her symptoms to the fact that she carries the sickle cell trait. “When someone without sickle cell disease is bitten by a mosquito, the parasite enters ...

Functional asplenia in children with sickle-cell anemia may be a pertinent factor in the susceptibility to infections — particularly pneumococcal infections — that is characteristic of this ...

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But her rank wouldn’t save her from being accused of evil: Of about 100 other skeletons at the grave site, only Zosia was covered with a sickle across her neck and a giant padlock on her toe.

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 ...

Pfizer’s startling announcement late Wednesday that it would pull its pill for sickle-cell disease off pharmacy shelves is a blow to the drugmaker’s efforts to buy its way through an impending ...

Children with sickle cell disease, a chronic hemolytic anemia, present with a wide variety of neurological syndromes, including ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, transient ischemic attacks ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of genetic blood disorders. A person inherits SCD from their parents when they inherit two copies of the sickle cell gene, one from each parent. This ...