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Carol A. Cates, MSN, MBA, RN, is the chief nursing officer at Odessa Regional Medical Center. You can reach her via e-mail at [email protected] Years ago, I took a post-graduate course on the role of ...
Amy Cohen is running the New York City Marathon despite living with the painful effects of sickle cell disease.
September is National Sickle Cell Awareness Month. Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States, and it affects approximately 100,000 Americans– mainly ...
Extreme pain, strokes and organ failure: These can be debilitating — and sometimes life-threatening — signs of a sickle cell crisis. For more than 100,000 people in the United States with sickle cell ...
GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio — Danielle Lee of Garfield Heights is an aspiring actress and a self-proclaimed adrenaline junkie. Although that doesn't mix with the sickle cell disease she's been fighting ...
Last week, the Food and Drug Administration approved two new gene therapies to treat sickle cell disease. Roughly 100,000 people in the U.S. live with the debilitating and painful blood disorder, most ...
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A sickle cell first: Base editing, a new form of gene therapy, leaves patient feeling 'more than fine'
Though he doesn't remember it, Branden Baptiste had his first sickle cell crisis at age 2. Through elementary school, he was in and out of the hospital with pain episodes, not knowing why. As he got ...
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