In recognition of Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month in September, the Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month campaign features a series of stories highlighting the real-life experiences of people affected by sickle cell disease, written in their own words. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, or X for more…
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When I joined Bionews, the publisher of this website, in 2023 as a freelance sickle cell disease (SCD) columnist, I experienced something that stayed with me. As someone living with a rare disease, I wasn’t the only person like me in the workplace. Several colleagues also lived with chronic…
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Among children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) and cerebral macrovasculopathy (CV), or disease affecting the brain’s large and medium-sized blood vessels, age at CV diagnosis, the severity of blood vessel narrowing, and bronchial obstruction independently predicted CV reversal. In this long-term follow-up study of 50 children receiving regular blood…
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When I was younger, I hated taking medication. It didn’t sit well with me that I had to take it for something I never asked for. Having to do it every day was particularly difficult, and when it came to managing pain, the size of some of the tablets and…
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A research team at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has received a $4.1 million grant to investigate how everyday environmental exposures — from air pollution and temperature to food, housing, and stress — may affect the health of people with sickle cell disease (SCD). The five-year…
Becoming educated and informed about sickle cell disease is a good first step. Here you’ll find general information about the disease, including diagnosis, symptoms, and causes.
It helps to know others have been where you are now. Here’s a collection of our columnists’ words of wisdom to help you along on your sickle cell disease journey.
A stem cell transplant is the only potential cure for sickle cell disease, but there are a variety of other treatment approaches. Here you can find more information about current treatments as well as experimental therapies in the pipeline.
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