A team of UConn biomedical engineers, working with colleagues from Yale, MIT, and Harvard, has developed a simple, inexpensive, and quick technique for the diagnosis and monitoring of sickle cell disease that can be used ...
Oct 23, 2015
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Boston Medical Center (BMC) has significantly reduced the amount of time that pediatric patients experiencing pain from sickle cell disease (SCD) wait before receiving pain medication when they come to the emergency department. ...
Sep 21, 2015
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(HealthDay)—Scientists report they have identified new genes associated with height, heart disease risk and regulation of the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen.
Sep 17, 2015
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A research study of patients with thalassemia found that low bioavailability of the amino acid arginine may contribute to pulmonary hypertension – increased blood pressure in the pulmonary artery, pulmonary vein or pulmonary ...
Jul 10, 2015
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"NIH researchers pilot predictive medicine by studying healthy people's DNA," read the headline of a news release yesterday.
Jun 5, 2015
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A new study in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine revealed that 44 percent of adults with sickle cell disease who report trouble sleeping actually have a clinical diagnosis of sleep disordered breathing, including sleep ...
Mar 25, 2015
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New research reports that when compared to healthy pregnant women, pregnant women with a severe form of sickle cell disease (SCD) are six times more likely to die during or following pregnancy and have an increased risk for ...
Mar 23, 2015
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Investigators at The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles have demonstrated that MR imaging of the liver is more accurate than liver biopsy in determining total body iron balance in patients with sickle ...
Mar 19, 2015
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins have successfully corrected a genetic error in stem cells from patients with sickle cell disease, and then used those cells to grow mature red blood cells, they report. The study represents an ...
Mar 9, 2015
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UCLA stem cell researchers have shown that a novel stem cell gene therapy method could lead to a one-time, lasting treatment for sickle cell disease—the nation's most common inherited blood disorder.
Mar 9, 2015
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