sickle cell disease

  1. FDA Approves Groundbreaking CRISPR-Based Treatment, Offering Hope to Sickle Cell Patients

    Americas FDA Approves Groundbreaking CRISPR-Based Treatment, Offering Hope to Sickle Cell Patients

    Image Credit: NHLBI In a historic move, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for Casgevy, a powerful treatment for sickle cell disease, affecting over 100,000 Americans, primarily from the Black community. Developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, this...
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    World Sickle Cell Disease Patients At Higher Risk of Severe COVID-19 – AllAfrica News

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    General Health Nigeria ranks highest among countries with burden of sickle cell disorder in Africa – Tribune Online

    Nigeria has emerged as a country with the highest population of people with sickle cell disorder in Africa, and there is an urgent need for the government to address the disturbing trend because of the large population affected. Co-chairperson of African Congress on Sickle Cell Disease, Dr...
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    Metro Nigeria has the Highest Number of Sickle Cell Carriers in the World – Don – Olisa.tv

    A Professor of Peadeatrics and Child Health at the Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State, Dominic Osaghae, has revealed that Nigeria has the highest number of victims of sickle cell disease in the world, with 47.5 million carriers. Prof Osaghe stated this on Thursday while delivering the...
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    General Health How African nutmeg, Arabic gum prevent sickle cell disease crisis —Experts – Tribune Online

    FROM years , several medicinal plants have been used in the treatment and management of the sickle cell disease. Some suppress the symptoms of the disease; some produce a positive effect on the sickled red blood cells. It is not clear though which plant species actually have a proven … Read...
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    General Health Living with and managing sickle cell disease – The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper

    Creating awareness on sickle cell anemia • Stigmatisation Worsening Pains, Travails Of Persons Living With Sickle Cell Disease • Nigeria Now World’s Capital Of SCD • Victims Of Genetic Disorder Clamour For More Haematology Clinics Timileyin Edwins is the co-founder of CrimsonBow Sickle...
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    Labelled sorcerers, Cameroonian children with sickle-cell disease face death – news.trust.org

    DOUALA, Cameroon, May 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sitting on a stool outside her wood-plank house in Cameroon, indifferent to the..... Read more via News.Trust.org – https://ift.tt/2xpHJGm Get more World News
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    Metro Madam Onikoyi, Oldest Person Living With Sickle Cell At 91, Shares Her Story - Vanguard News

    Alhaja Ashiata Aduke Onikoyi is widely acknowledged as the oldest person in the world in the world. Vanguard news caught up with her recenty and she shared her stories in an in-depth interview. READ MORE HERE
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