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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...
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...
Study: Too few kids with sickle cell get stroke screen, care
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoToo few U.S. kids with sickle cell anemia get a needed screening for stroke, according to a study...
Hanif nearly died from a sickle cell crisis at age 8. Now cured, he's headed to Harvard
Lohud | The Journal News via Yahoo News· 11 months agoVALHALLA — At age 8, Hanif Mouehla lay unconscious, intubated in Maria Fareri Children's Hospital as...
Sickle-cell disease is nothing to joke about. Do better, HBO | Guest Opinion
Miami Herald via AOL· 1 year agoHBO Max’s updated Scooby-Doo series “Velma” is under scrutiny after a tasteless joke made during the...
FDA considers first CRISPR gene editing treatment that may cure sickle cell
CNN via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAt 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 ...
FDA widens approval of Vertex’s CRISPR medicine to treat beta thalassemia
BioPharma Dive via Yahoo Finance· 5 months agoThe Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ CRISPR-based medicine...
The Process of Hemolysis and Red Blood Cell Breakdown
Verywell Health via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAbnormal Processing Related to Anemia, Trauma, and More Medically reviewed by Archana Sharma, DO...
Adults with rare blood disorder to be offered stem cell transplants
Press Association News via AOL· 7 months agoHundreds of adults with a severe inherited blood disorder could benefit from stem cell transplants...
Vertex (VRTX), CRISPR Get Positive CHMP Opinion for Gene-Therapy
Zacks via Yahoo Finance· 6 months agoVertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated VRTX announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for...