Adolescents and young adults with sickle cell disease may face challenges in accessing physical therapy, a study reports.

The Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology divisions at MUSC have joined forces to create and test an ...

There are more types of sickle cell crisis than a vaso-occlusive crisis, writes columnist Mary Shaniqua, who summarizes ...

Because sickle cell anemia symptoms can begin by four months of age, early diagnosis is critical. All newborns in the United States are now tested for the disease. Sickle cell anemia can be identified ...

Children with sickle cell disease, a chronic hemolytic anemia, present with a wide variety of neurological syndromes, including ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, transient ischemic attacks ...

In sickle cell anemia there are three primary mechanisms of pain arousal; nociceptive, peripheral neuropathic and central neuropathic pain. Inflammation or mechanical tissue pain is the underlying ...

Recent Trump administration cuts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has thrown the future of Michigan’s sickle cell disease registry into doubt. The Michigan Sickle Cell Data Collection Program, ...

The preload was increased (left ventricle end-diastolic volume) and the afterload was decreased (diastolic blood pressure, peripheral vascular resistance ... of the literature in characterizing a ...

Sickle cell is one of the diseases in Kenya that is surrounded by many misconceptions and cultural beliefs A group of survivors of the disease from Kakamega have, however, embarked on a mission to ...

Abstract: Anemia is the most predominant blood disease globally and is caused by iron deficiency resulting to fatigue. Thalassemia is the shortage of production of essential protein, the hemoglobin, ...

Hemoglobinopathies, mainly sickle cell anemia and thalassemia, are autosomal-recessive inherited disorders. Approximately 5% of the whole world population carries a potentially pathological gene.