How do we make the best use of blood banks in sub-Saharan Africa?
Blood transfusions are life-saving, but blood banks often face shortages.
Feb 23, 2022
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Blood transfusions are life-saving, but blood banks often face shortages.
Feb 23, 2022
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Sickle cell anemia is an inherited blood disorder where red blood cells become sickle/crescent shaped. It causes frequent infections, swelling in the hands and legs, pain, severe tiredness and delayed growth or puberty. Treatment ...
Feb 16, 2022
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Gene therapy trials for sickle cell disease have been showing great promise, even offering hope of a cure. But in early 2021, the trials ground to a halt after reports of blood malignancies in two people in a trial sponsored ...
Feb 15, 2022
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A gene therapy that could provide a permanent cure for sickle cell disease continues to show success through a third wave of patients, researchers report.
Dec 13, 2021
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Organ-on-a-chip technology has provided a push to discover new drugs for a variety of rare and ignored diseases for which current models either don't exist or lack precision. In particular, these platforms can include the ...
Dec 10, 2021
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Researchers at the University of Missouri, led by Praveen Rao, are developing a free, online resource that could help scientists accelerate their discoveries for various human diseases—such as sickle cell disease, cystic ...
Dec 8, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Pregnant people with sickle cell trait (SCT) have increased risk of stillbirth, according to a study published online Nov. 24 in JAMA Network Open.
Dec 3, 2021
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A new study published in JAMA Health Forum by a University of Alabama at Birmingham researcher and colleagues is highlighting the lack of longitudinal data to evaluate and improve outcomes for those suffering from sickle ...
Oct 29, 2021
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(HealthDay)—In a 2021 clinical guideline issued by the American Society of Hematology and published online Sept. 28 in Blood Advances, eight conditional recommendations are presented for the use of hematopoietic stem cell ...
Sep 30, 2021
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"We need a spray bottle, to spray her like a bad cat," one of the emergency department workers said as Tolulope Afolabi protested that she was too woozy from pain medication to be hustled out of the hospital.
Sep 30, 2021
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