But not if you suffer from sickle cell disease, which affects nearly eight million people worldwide, most in sub-Saharan Africa. In the UK, approximately 17,500 people have sickle cell disease and ...

The partners are working with government officials in Africa to determine the best methods to screen children for sickle cell disease and determine how to collect data and train health care workers.

In recent years, the battle against sickle cell disease in Africa has seen tremendous progress, thanks to modern medical advances and the implementation of comprehensive screening programs.

The 2018 Sickle Cell Stakeholder Forum that brought more than 60 patients, caregivers, researchers and others together charted a path forward. As a Minneapolis City Council member and former ...

Henry visited doctors, specialists, multiple hospitals and emergency rooms before he was diagnosed with sickle cell disease. Henry, now 45, has lived with sickle cell his entire life. The Baton ...

In many countries, doctors screen infants for sickle cell disease as part of standard newborn screening programs. Doctors take a blood sample from the infant’s heel and analyze it for atypical ...

September is National Sickle Cell Anemia Awareness Month. Sickle cell anemia is a disease that is inherited genetically through a trait passed to a child by both parents, affecting the blood cells.

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited disorder that affects over 100,000 people in the United States, according to the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, of that number, the Centers ...

Even the name sounds horrible − sickle cell disease − conjuring up images of menacing hooks, only these hooks are slicing through the bloodstream of an estimated 100,000 Americans, mostly ...

September Is Sickle Cell Awareness Month. While many people are familiar with sickle cell anemia, sickle cell traits have also plagued our community. Sickle cell trait (SCT) is an inherited blood ...

Doctors call it an incredibly important but neglected disease. Memphis has some of the highest rates of sickle cell among babies in the entire nation. For this Sickle Cell Awareness month ...

At the time, the efforts to screen newborns in Nigeria were small and isolated, with little communication or collaboration among groups. Nnodu co-founded the Sickle Cell Support Society of Nigeria ...