Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy traveling through your blood vessels. They are delivering oxygen to all the different tissues in your body and removing carbon dioxide to ...

Most individuals living with sickle cell disease who presented to the emergency department with a pain crisis, known as vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC), were not triaged appropriately according to ...

How is it that you’re alive? It’s a question that we rarely ask ourselves—but it’s one that has a definite answer. We all know our heart pumps life-giving oxygen throughout our bodies. How does that ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) can affect people of any ethnicity but is much more common among Africans and African Americans. Other ethnic groups with higher rates of SCD include Hispanic Americans from ...

Sickle cell disease reshapes healthy round blood cells into a sickled C-shape. As these sticky cells clump up, they can block blood from getting to your tissues, so it cant deliver needed oxygen. When ...

Acute chest syndrome is a serious complication of sickle cell disease. It involves symptoms like chest pain, cough, or fever and can be life threatening if not treated promptly. Sickle cell disease is ...

Sickle Cell disease can be a very scary issue to deal with however, with proper monitoring and care, many people are able to live their life to its full capacity with minor complications. According to ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited health condition that slows the flow of red blood cells in your body. For people with SCD, hemoglobin S (a mutated protein that transports oxygen) causes red ...

Daniel Cressy, 23, says path leading to completion of curative gene therapy is his ‘greatest blessing’ A young south-eastern Louisiana man recently became the first person in his region to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Patricia McGill was 13 and learning that she had inherited sickle cell disease, she did not think she would reach 30. But now ...

A School of Nursing professor’s quest to help others live with the condition The following is a summary of a story on Duke Global Health Institute. Duke School of Nursing Assistant Professor Stephanie ...

New parents are excited. They’ve just brought their baby home and have already spent countless hours planning for their child’s future, dreaming of endless possibilities, and wondering what life has ...