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Adolescents and young adults with sickle cell disease may face challenges in accessing physical therapy, a study reports.
There are more types of sickle cell crisis than a vaso-occlusive crisis, writes columnist Mary Shaniqua, who summarizes ...
Pneumococcal meningitis was associated with a case-fatality rate of almost 30% in children with sickle cell disease, a study ...
A program offering comprehensive primary and specialist care for adults with SCD reduced visits to the emergency department, ...
The study included 88 teens with sickle cell disease, who were followed at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio for at ...
Sickle cell disease (SCD) and sickle cell trait (SCT) can increase the risk of eye diseases associated with diabetes mellitus, according to a recent study. Findings indicated patients who had diabetes ...
Medical advances are changing some of the hallmark physical symptoms of sickle cell disease, columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye writes.
Several weeks ago, when news of the first sickle cell disease patient to be cured by gene therapy went viral online, I completely ignored it because I wasn’t interested. As a sickle cell advocate and ...
More perceived social support from classmates is associated with less disease severity among children and adolescents with sickle cell anemia, the most common and often the most severe form of sickle ...