A smear of this patient's blood showed that "the shape of the red cells was very irregular, but what especially attracted attention was the large number of thin, elongated, sickle-shaped and ...

Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders characterised by the presence of abnormal hemoglobin, called hemoglobin S. When a person has SCD, their blood cells become ...

A plaque honouring Professor Dame Elizabeth Anionwu, the NHS's first sickle cell specialist nurse counsellor, has been unveiled at an NHS blood donor centre in south London. Dame Elizabeth ...

Severe complications like difficulty in breathing, blood clots, stroke and even organ failure can be caused due to sickle ...

More than 100,000 people in the United States — 9 in 10 of them Black — have sickle cell disease. The inherited illness causes red blood cells, usually round, to contort into a crescent ...

South London is honouring a pioneer in sickle cell work at a new blood donation centre. The centre in Brixton and has been designed in collaboration with residents, community leaders and local ...

Molecules of sickle-cell hemoglobin stick to one another, forming rigid rods. These rods cause a person's red blood cells to take on a deformed, sickle-like shape, thus giving the disease its name.

Carla Howard, a Hoxworth blood donor recruiter and sickle cell patient, was in attendance, sharing her story. "My mother found out I had sickle cell at 2 years old," she said. "She stated that I ...