Prescription drugs and vaccines revolutionized health care, dramatically decreasing death from disease and improving quality of life across the globe. But how do researchers, universities and hospitals, and the pharmaceutical ...
Dec 14, 2023
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Gautam Dongre's two children in India and Pascazia Mazeze's son in Tanzania live with an inherited blood disorder that turns blood cells into instruments of pain.
Dec 14, 2023
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Patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) often face a reduced quality of life and a lower life expectancy. Allotransplantation, the first treatment for SCD with curative potential, comes with risks, including transplant-related ...
Dec 11, 2023
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The United States on Friday approved a breakthrough therapy that uses revolutionary gene editing tool CRISPR to treat the debilitating blood disorder sickle cell disease.
Dec 8, 2023
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From 2014 to 2021, uptake of disease-modifying treatments (DMTs) for sickle cell disease (SCD) remained low, according to a study published in the journal JAMA Network Open.
Nov 27, 2023
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Britain's medicines regulator has authorized the world's first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease, in a move that could offer relief to thousands of people with the crippling disease in the U.K.
Nov 16, 2023
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A team at Weill Cornell Medicine has mapped the location and spatial features of blood-forming cells within human bone marrow. Their findings confirm hypotheses about the anatomy of this tissue and provide a powerful new ...
Nov 14, 2023
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For pediatric patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), ophthalmologic complications include nonproliferative retinopathy (NPR) and proliferative retinopathy (PR), which occur in 33 and 6 percent, respectively, according to ...
Nov 9, 2023
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HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, was first identified in 1983. To catch this virus was initially a death sentence, but today, thanks to antiretroviral drugs, it can be kept in check. However, there is still no cure.
Nov 9, 2023
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Children and young adults with kidney failure due to sickle cell disease (SCD) wait longer for a kidney transplant and have significantly higher mortality when compared to children and young adults with kidney failure not ...
Nov 6, 2023
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