Observation of Howell—Jolly bodies in the blood of children with sickle-cell anemia suggested the paradox ... No splenic uptake of radioactive label is present in the left upper quadrant.

Etavopivat may help treat sickle cell disease by acting to lower the rate of red blood cell sickling. An open-label mechanistic study to assess ... on the health of red blood cells and hemolytic ...

Share on Pinterest There may soon be a new treatment for sickle cell anemia that uses gene-editing ... warning has been added to the treatment’s label, the FDA said. Both therapies are approved ...

A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say. They credit ...

Sickle cell disease, also called sickle cell anemia, is a group of inherited blood disorders that affect the body’s ability to produce functioning haemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells ...

Sickle cell disease affects around 100,000 people in the US, most commonly African Americans. It leads to anemia, vaso-occlusive events and crises (painful episodes in which small blockages starve ...

At age 45, Dr. Lakiea Bailey said, she was the oldest person with sickle cell anemia that she knew. The executive director of the nonprofit patient advocacy group the Sickle Cell Consortium was ...

Anna Ochigbo of Nigeria has lost two siblings to sickle cell anemia. In May 2022, Ochigbo launched the nonprofit Hoplites Sickle Cell Foundation in memory of her siblings. "We don't just create ...