Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of genetic blood disorders. A person inherits SCD from their parents when they inherit two copies of the sickle cell gene, one from each parent. This ...

On January 1, Dr Speciosa Wandira Naigaga Kazibwe, the former Vice President of Uganda, was rushed from Iganga District in eastern Uganda to Kampala and admitted directly into the Intensive Care ...

“Desidustat was invented in India, and patients with sickle cell disease need therapies in addition to the currently available drug Hydroxyurea. So our vision is to ensure that India continues ...

But her rank wouldn’t save her from being accused of evil: Of about 100 other skeletons at the grave site, only Zosia was covered with a sickle across her neck and a giant padlock on her toe.

Found in an unmarked cemetery in the village of Pien, the 400-year-old woman was thought to be deemed a vampire and those who ...

Two years ago, archaeologists in Poland made a discovery at a gravesite they could only describe as "astonishing" — the remains of a woman with a sickle around her neck and a triangular padlock ...

A couple of months ago, I sat with the founder of the Disability and Sickle Cell Organisation of Nigeria, Mr Tayo Faloye, for an interview that has since been published online. Tayo himself is a ...

For 22-year-old Anshul*, pain has been an unwelcome companion ever since he was diagnosed at a tender age with sickle cell anaemia ... from rural and impoverished backgrounds, the PVTGs were ...

76.6 x 101.7 cm. (30.2 x 40 in.) ...

In children with sickle cell disease, hemoglobin and sickle cell hemoglobin (HbS) should be measured at presentation with arterial ischemic stroke (D). Urgent exchange transfusion should be ...

This electron microscope image provided by the National Institutes of Health in 2016 shows a blood cell altered by sickle cell disease, top. (National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences ...

Armie Hammer has returned to the spotlight following his 2021 cancelation over sexual assault allegations and claims of 'cannibalism'. The actor, 38, has launched his own podcast called The Armie ...