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

Sickle cell anemia, also called drepanocytosis, is a blood disorder or hemoglobin disorder that changes the shape of red blood cells. The abnormally shaped red blood cells interfere with the delivery ...

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 ...

Patients with diagnosis of SCA confirmed by electrophoresis or HPLC and on steady state ... Pattern of hemolysis parameters and association with fetal hemoglobin in sickle cell anemia patients in ...

A groundbreaking new gene therapy for sickle cell patients is now being rolled out for use on the NHS in England, as ITV News' Health Correspondent Rebecca Barry reports A £1.65 million treatment ...

The tests do not differentiate between those with SCD and those with sickle cell trait (SCT). 3 In hemoglobin electrophoresis, an electric current is used to identify and measure the different types ...

A "groundbreaking" £1.65 million treatment has been approved for use on the NHS, offering patients with severe sickle cell disease some hope of a cure. It is believed around 1,700 people could be ...

A sickle cell disease “cure” is to be offered to NHS patients for the first time. The £1.65 million gene therapy called exa-cel, also known under the brand name Casgevy, uses a Nobel Prize ...

Asiawu Imam says the therapy will make a huge difference A gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease, with a price tag of £1.65m, is to be offered to patients on the NHS in England.