Sickle cell trait evolved as protection against malaria, especially in tropical regions. Its discovery advanced understanding ...

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Evelyn Quartey carries the sickle cell trait, as did her ex-husband and first son, Emmanuel, who passed away from Sickle Cell Disease in 2009 at 7. Her younger son Gerald had been diagnosed with ...

With Nigeria home to the highest number of people living with sickle cell disease (SCD) globally, health experts have called for curative therapies such as gene therapy and bone marrow transplants ...

POLICE ALSO SAY THEY FOUND HER ON FUN A New Jersey woman stole $560,000 in hospital treatments by pretending she had sickle cell anemia, according to the Lancaster County district attorney.Taleah ...

Sickle cell disease is caused by the inheritance of two mutated β-globin genes, one from each parent, leading to the production of abnormal haemoglobin, known as sickle haemoglobin. SCD is a ...

A 30-year-old New Jersey woman was charged with two felonies after police said she lied about having sickle cell anemia and refused to pay for over $560,000 in treatment from a hospital in ...

Vertex Pharma's £1.65 million ($2.05 million) gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease (SCD), Casgevy, has been given the green light for use by the NHS in England under a managed access ...

Sickle Cell warrior David Saenyi speaks during the launch of the Sickle Cell Afya Dhabiti project at Mbagathi Hospital, Nairobi. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard] People living with Sickle Cell Disease ...

Paris, June 3, 2025. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to rilzabrutinib, a novel, advanced, oral, reversible Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor ...

(RTTNews) - French drug major Sanofi S.A. (SNYNF,SNY) announced Tuesday that the US Food and Drug Administration has granted orphan drug designation to rilzabrutinib for sickle cell disease.