Columnist Mary Shaniqua offers suggestions and encouragement to parents whose child has just been diagnosed with sickle cell ...

Sickle Cell Disease is a chronic, inherited blood disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. It is best known for causing anaemia, pain episodes, and organ complications, but a lesser-known ...

A range of symptoms can affect people with sickle cell disease, especially from a young age. However, some children have few ...

More perceived social support from classmates was tied to less disease severity in children with sickle cell anemia in ...

These symptoms also serve as warning signs that she may be gearing up towards a sickle cell crisis that day. Sickle cell crises are painful episodes which occur when the blood vessels get blocked ...

Hydroxyurea remains effective long-term in reducing emergency department visits and hospital days for children living with sickle cell disease ... one – before severe symptoms typically emerge ...

In fact transfusions, new medicine, and the practice of giving antibiotics to babies with Sickle Cell, have improved the odds for many born with the disease. Bea Files, MD One in three children ...

Children with sickle cell disease, a chronic hemolytic anemia ... transient ischemic attacks, 'soft neurological signs', seizures, headache, coma, visual loss, altered mental status, cognitive ...

When Dancan Ekaya was born, his parents, Rukia Achieng and Richard Simiyu noticed some worrying symptoms in their child. According to Dancan, his parents noticed that he was not only crying a lot ...

Hydroxyurea remains effective over the long term among children with sickle cell disease, real-world data suggested. The average time on hydroxyurea was 5 years, with many children on the therapy ...

Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and a comorbid condition of asthma have increased numbers of vaso-occlusive pain and acute chest syndrome episodes, and all-cause mortality. When assessed ...