Some treatments for sickle cell disease or cancer can destroy germ cells that later develop into sperm, putting young boys at risk of reduced fertility in adulthood, a study suggests. These results could lead to a change in treatment guidelines, giving healthcare providers who are treating prepubescent boys the…
This week the National Institutes of Health awarded a $2.3 million grant to The New York Blood Center’s (NYBC), one of the largest independent, community-based blood centers in the country, to study potential solutions to abnormal immunologic responses to blood transfusions in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). The…
A group of interdisciplinary researchers from universities and medical colleges in Lagos, Nigeria, recently published a study in the Italian Journal of Pediatrics that has significant public health implications on treating children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) in the developing world. The study, “…
A recently published study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation identified an association between worsening intravascular hemolysis (rupture or destruction of red blood cells) and the rapid clinical deterioration seen during adult transition in Sickle cell disease (SCD). The study, “Nonhematopoietic Nrf2 dominantly…
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