Sickle cell anemia can cause a wide array of serious ... If abnormalities are found, the doctor may recommend a blood ...

Medical advances are changing some of the hallmark physical symptoms of sickle cell disease, columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye writes.

The Director-General of the Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency, Prof Martins Emeje, says the agency has developed 23 new natural medicines, including remedies for diarrhoea, peptic ulcers, ...

For the first time in his life, a young New Jersey man is pain-free thanks to a new gene treatment working to cure patients ...

Sickle cell history includes triumphant breakthroughs ... and scars on his legs from recurrent ulcers. Nothing notable showed up in a urinalysis, but Irons noticed something odd about Noel ...

The Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology divisions at the Medical University of South Carolina ...

Normal red blood cells are round and pliable. With sickle cell disease, these cells become elongated and stiff, making it easy for them to get hung up in blood vessels, causing pain and other ...

No relatives had had anemia, jaundice or leg ulcers to his knowledge ... electrophoresis and has confirmed the diagnosis of sickle-cell trait. there seemed to be some dullness with decreased ...

Feb. 25, 2025 — 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 ... Brains of People With ...

He was diagnosed in 2024 with the sickle cell trait, which has been linked to the deaths of 14 college football players since 2000, according to the National Registry of Catastrophic Sports ...

Leg ulcers, which are wounds that are slow to heal or won’t heal at all, are a fairly common complication of sickle cell anemia, particularly in male patients and people age 10 to 50.