While more than 1,700 Hoosiers are currently living with sickle cell disease, an even greater number carry the sickle cell trait and may unknowingly pass the condition on to their children.
) BodyChildren with Sickle CellDisease (SCD), a genetic disorder affecting red blood cells, experience terrible bouts of pain when the blood cells contort into a sickle ...
Santosh Saraf are studying chronic kidney disease in people with sickle cell disease ... Lung and BloodInstitute to study chronic kidney disease in people with sickle cell disease.
Medicaid is doing a novel payment system for the new, promising and expensive sickle cell treatment. It may become a model for all gene therapies being developed. (Image credit. Judd Demaline for KFFHealthNews) ....
The Dining with the StarsGala was held on December 13 on the USC-L campus at the BradleyBuilding. This year’s event was even more comparable to the Stars of any century! There was a red-carpet welcoming guests from far ....
The DistrictGovernor, RotarianNana Yaa Siriboe, commended the club for its sustained commitment to health care, noting that caring for sickle cell patients was both demanding and continuous.
Instead, much of his young life is marked by hospital visits, blood tests, and the quiet bravery required to live with sickle cell disease ... "If you look at him you wouldn't think he has sickle cell.