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Pain related to sickle cell disease (SCD) increases during menstruation, as do emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations, for many women and girls—according to a new, nationwide study led ...

As Uganda rolls out mandatory nationwide screening of newborns for sickle cell disease this month, a gene therapy celebrated ...

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Sickle cell anemia (HbSS) is the homozygous dominant variant and the most common and severe form of the disease. Whereas patients who only inherited one gene encoding for abnormal HbS and a different ...

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A new breakthrough study led by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities could explain why patients with the same genetic sickle cell mutation experience different levels of pain, organ ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — A newly opened sickle cell treatment center at the Medical University of South Carolina is facing growing criticism from patients and civil rights advocates who say they are ...

A bone marrow transplant process is safe and curative for adults with sickle cell disease, according to results of a trial completed at about 20 cancer centers. A bone marrow transplant process ...

The government has rolled out a must-do nationwide sickle cell screening for newborns to reduce the disease’s contribution to Uganda’s under-five deaths. Sickle cell disease (SCD) remains a major ...