Esther Nkemakolam runs her fingers through kinetic sand and sings a “Moana” song as UPMC Children’s Hospital nurse Taylor ...

When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School in the mid-2000s, one of his first clinical encounters ...

The underutilization of disease-modifying therapy by people with sickle cell disease is “persistent and alarming,” according ...

Red blood cells contain hemoglobin ... Hb electrophoresis, a device used to screen for sickle cell and give a confirmatory test," he adds.He explains that even though awareness about the disease ...

A disease known to cause extreme pain for patients is sickle cell disease ... blood and outside of their blood change them to make a hemoglobin that doesn’t sickle or to make more fetal ...

3 In hemoglobin electrophoresis, an electric current is used to identify and measure the different types of hemoglobin in the blood. The presence of abnormal hemoglobin (HbS, HbC, or HbE) may indicate ...

If abnormal hemoglobin is suspected, then a battery of tests should be used to determine the specific hemoglobin variant. Alkaline hemoglobin electrophoresis on cellulose acetate is commonly used ...

Sickle cell anemia is the most common form of severe hemoglobin disorder. An inherited disease, that is, passed on by the parents and present at birth, sickle cell anemia is also a chronic disease and ...