Sickle Cell

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs if starting life with a potentially disabling genetic blood disease wasn’t enough, a study shows that almost two-thirds of babies born…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSickle cell, a genetic blood disease that affects red blood cells, has caused grief  in the medical fratenity as their colleagues, who…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteGautam 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…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteEight-year-old Emmanuel Muwowo sits quietly on his hospital bed clutching a blue plastic figurine in one hand.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteRegulators on Friday approved two new gene therapies for sickle cell disease that doctors hope can cure the painful, inherited blood disorder…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSickle cell patients are being put at risk because of a chronic shortage of specialist nurses to treat them, a damning new…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe only cure for painful sickle cell disease today is a bone marrow transplant. But soon there may be a new cure…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA London hospital will investigate the impact of sickle  cell disease on eyesight. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn the small town of Taveta, lodged in Kenya’s Taita Hills close to the border with Tanzania, families sat on every available…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA campaign has been launched to raise awareness of the urgent need for more black blood donors. Read More