For people living with sickle cell disease, joint pain, especially in the knees, can be a frustrating and persistent companion.When swelling and fluid build-up occur in the joint, doctors often ...

By Linda Naa Deide Aryeetey Accra, May 28.GNA- Ghana and the global medical community are mourning the passing of Professor Felix Israel Domeno Konotey-Ahulu, a renowned Ghanian physician and ...

The Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology divisions at MUSC have joined forces to create and test an ...

There are more types of sickle cell crisis than a vaso-occlusive crisis, writes columnist Mary Shaniqua, who summarizes ...

Ninety-nine Indonesians who are in Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj pilgrimage have contracted pneumonia, while one pilgrim has ...

spleen, kidneys and liver. People with one copy of the HbS gene are "carriers" of the sickle cell trait and may experience some symptoms. People with two copies of the gene develop sickle cell ...

Medical advances are changing some of the hallmark physical symptoms of sickle cell disease, columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye writes.

In children with sickle cell disease, hemoglobin and sickle ... If the patient has had a neurological event in the context of severe anemia (e.g. splenic sequestration or aplastic crisis), or ...

Normally the spleen helps filter infections out of the blood ... One in 13 Black babies in the U.S. carries the sickle cell gene. Anemia. This symptom is the most common one. Having fewer red blood ...

A patient with sickle cell anemia often needs hospitalization due to acute events, such as pain, priapism, stroke, acute chest syndrome, propensity to develop diseases, splenic sequestration, ...

The spleen is a small organ on the left side of the abdomen ... Bacterial meningitis in patients with sickle cell anemia in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil: a report on ten cases. Hematol Transfus Cell Ther.