After attending the first annual Global Sickle Cell Disease Congress in Accra, Ghana, in 2010, Obiageli Nnodu returned home to Nigeria with a deep resolve to combat the disease in her own country.

What if hemoglobins clumped together? This is what happens in sickle cell disease. Sickle cell arises from a single point mutation in the human genome. That means that one DNA base pair in the HBB ...

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MADISON (WKOW) -- Children ages 12 and older with sickle cell are now eligible for a newly FDA-approved treatment through the MACC Fund Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Children's Wisconsin.

He has sickle cell disease, the group of inherited disorders that affect hemoglobin, which is a protein in the red blood cells that delivers oxygen to tissues in the body. For those with sickle ...

A kums Drugs and Pharmaceuticals on Friday announced that it has been awarded a patent for its Room Temperature Stable Oral Suspension of Hydroxyurea, a breakthrough formulation aimed at managing ...

One sickle cell disease (SCD) patient may need as many as 50 units of blood and up to 25 units of platelets for the new cell-based gene therapies such as Casgevy and Lyfgenia to be successfully ...

For the sickle cell disease community, September is an important time for advocacy and raising awareness, because it’s National Sickle Cell Awareness Month. This year’s theme is “Sickle Cell Matters.” ...

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Akums Drugs and Pharmaceuticals has secured a patent for a room-temperature stable Oral Suspension of Hydroxyurea, helping with Sickle Cell Disease management without the need for refrigeration.

Essex sickle cell and thalassaemia service offer a range of services to ‘at risk’ couples, families with children affected with sickle cell and thalassemia and/ other unusual haemoglobin variant. The ...