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What Causes Sickle Cell Anemia?
Verywell Health via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSickle cell anemia is a genetically inherited disorder of the hemoglobin in red blood cells (RBC). Hemoglobin is the protein in RBCs that transports...
Understanding Sickle Cell Anemia
Verywell Health via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSickle cell disease is an inherited condition that affects the oxygen-carrying hemoglobin protein in red blood cells. It carries a risk of a sickle cell...
Why we need more Black blood donors to treat sickle cell anemia
CNN via Yahoo News· 12 months agoCNN staffer Sharon Browne-Peter was diagnosed with sickle cell disease before she was born and needs...
Signs and Symptoms of Sickle Cell Disease
Health via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders that causes symptoms such as anemia, pain, fatigue, jaundice, an increased...
The FDA just approved the first gene editing therapy for sickle cell anemia, but it'll cost $2.2...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe FDA approved the first gene therapy for sickle cell anemia.Meletios Verras/ iStock The FDA...
Kansas Citians with sickle cell disease may benefit from new FDA-approved treatments
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 6 months agoSickle cell disease affects about 100,000 people in the United States, including an estimated 2,000...
'Every day is a bad day.' Sickle cell disease bill would educate public, track patients
Cape Cod Times via Yahoo News· 6 months agoAubrey Wilsey of Mashpee is relieved that his son Jayden Wilsey, 13, was released from a month-long...
Landmark sickle cell drug axed by regulators
The Independent via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA drug approved to treat sickle cell disease has been axed by the government, sparking criticism from campaigners. The medicine, crizanlizumab, which was...
Sickle cell affects more families in Africa and India, but new gene therapies are out of reach
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 6 months agoGautam Dongre’s two children in India and Pascazia Mazeze’s son in Tanzania live with an inherited...
‘Unheard’ explores living with sickle cell disease: ‘When we say we’re in pain, we’re in pain’
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 year ago“People with sickle cell get better as they age…” “You don’t look like you’re in pain…” Those are...