A systematic literature review found no evidence to support that physical exertion without rhabdomyolysis (muscle breakdown) or heat injury can cause sudden death for individuals with sickle cell ...

There will be a blood drive for sickle cell disease – the most common inherited blood disorder – this weekend in South Jersey ...

Her son, McKinley has sickle cell disease. "Their blood cells are not round, like you and I, but they are shaped like a sickle, kind of like a croissant," she said. People with the disease often ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

The CDC states that, on average, sickle cell disease reduces a patient's lifespan by more than 20 years, which is why Carla ...

Someone in the United States requires a blood transfusion every two seconds. For individuals fighting sickle cell disease, ...

In 1997, UAB’s Tim Townes, Ph.D., and Thomas Ryan, Ph.D., created the first practical animal model of sickle cell disease, a hereditary blood disorder. Ten years later, Townes, chair of the UAB ...

Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a type of inherited blood disorder that affects the body's haemoglobin level. Individuals with ...

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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.

Sickle cell anaemia occurs when red blood cells change shape under low oxygen conditions, transforming into a sickle shape that can block blood flow. This blockage can result in pain in the ...