Higher economic deprivation also associated with brain age gap in controls without sickle cell anemia. HealthDay News — Adults with sickle cell anemia (SCA) and healthy controls with greater ...

Hydroxyurea Significantly Reduces Infections in Children With Sickle Cell Anemia Jan. 29, 2024 — Researchers have revealed that hydroxyurea significantly reduces infections in children with ...

NHS patients with sickle cell disease will be able to benefit from a groundbreaking gene-editing treatment that offers the prospect of a cure for the condition. The one-off gene therapy, known as ...

Living with sickle cell disease comes with a heavy cost. Much of your time is spent seeking to understand your body, how the condition impacts you as a person, and then adjusting your lifestyle to ...

Asiawu Imam says the therapy will make a huge difference A gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease, with a price tag of £1.65m, is to be offered to patients on the NHS in England.

Pfizer is voluntarily withdrawing its sickle cell disease (SCD) therapy Oxbryta from all world markets after finding an "imbalance" in deaths in its clinical trials programme. It's a blow to the ...

African Americans are also at risk for a certain type of anemia called sickle cell anemia. Sickle cell anemia is a genetic disease that causes sickle-shaped blood cells that can’t carry oxygen ...

Would the transplant work? What would it look like to have a successful stem cell transplant? Would it be a cure for my sickle cell disease? It was a decision I could think about making because my ...

A sickle cell disease “cure” is to be offered to NHS patients for the first time. The £1.65 million gene therapy called exa-cel, also known under the brand name Casgevy, uses a Nobel Prize ...

The blood test can be helpful in diagnosing anemia. Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration ... and monitor other conditions, including sickle cell disease, hyperglycemia (high blood sugar ...