Researchers at the New York Blood Center have made a breakthrough in understanding the body’s autoimmune response to sickle ...

A new review and policy statement underscore the inaccuracy of sickle cell trait as a cause of death on autopsies.

On this map, the distribution of sickle-cell anemia haplotypes among nations with high prevalence of the disease are shown. Five distinct beta-globin haplotypes (indicated by colors) are found in ...

Hydroxyurea Significantly Reduces Infections in Children With Sickle Cell Anemia Jan. 29, 2024 — Researchers have revealed that hydroxyurea significantly reduces infections in children with ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy traveling through your blood vessels. They are delivering oxygen ...

Can we predict that natural selection will weed out genetic disease over time? Sickle-cell trait haplotype distribution shows the genetic advantages of this mutation. In the deoxygenated ...

"This study provides much-needed additional evidence in favor of transplant for children with severe manifestations of sickle cell anemia," said ... (detected by Doppler ultrasound), were on ...

Children with sickle cell disease, a chronic hemolytic anemia, present with a wide variety of neurological syndromes, including ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, transient ischemic attacks ...