Sickle cell anaemia is a genetic blood disorder characterised by the production of an abnormal haemoglobin, known as haemoglobin S. Sickle cell disease changes the shape of blood cells into a crescent ...

Accumulation of clots causes some of the most severe symptoms of sickle cell disease, including strokes, kidney failure, ...

Photo courtesy SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital As is the case for institutions treating the disease, a majority of the sickle cell patients at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital ...

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Dr. Joseph Lubega calls sickle cell disease “probably the saddest story of a health problem that you could imagine.” He and his colleagues at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of ...

Sickle cell disease is congenital, chronically depriving the developing brain of oxygen and possibly affecting its growth from birth. Also, children exposed to long-term economic deprivation and ...

SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital partners with Eye See Me African Bookstore to provide books promoting ...

However, carriers can have children who inherit sickle cell disease and may exhibit symptoms. Therefore, unless you conduct DNA paternity tests that confirm the child is not yours, the fact that ...

Children's Hospital Los Angeles added a 10th cell and gene therapy treatment for children, adolescents and young adults with serious medical conditions. The newest gene therapy treatment, Casgevy ...