Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy traveling through your blood vessels. They are delivering oxygen ...

News 8 is once again honoring Black history by looking at health care and the racial disparities many report facing.

However, the role of hemoglobin in the understanding of genetic disease has been equally powerful. Over 300 abnormal hemoglobins — such as sickle cell hemoglobin — have been discovered ...

In children with sickle cell disease, hemoglobin and sickle cell hemoglobin (HbS) should be measured at presentation with arterial ischemic stroke (D). Urgent exchange transfusion should be ...

Sickle cell disease is more than a genetic disorder, it is a daily fight for survival. The condition arises from a mutation in the hemoglobin gene, causing red blood cells to become rigid and ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely ... tells the body how to make a form of hemoglobin (Hb), the oxygen-carrying ...

Sickle Beta Zero Thalassemia Disease is similar to sickle cell anemia. Your child's red blood cells contain abnormal hemoglobin. In addition, the red blood cells have a defect called thalassemia, ...

Clinical trials for exa-cel have shown promising results that it has been authorised by the FDA and MHRA for use in beta thalassemia and sickle cell disease. These successes make CRISPR technology, as ...

On Tuesday, the Buffalo community came together to spread awareness about sickle cell disease during Black History Month.

But for a brief moment on a recent December morning, Wedam, 19, who has sickle cell disease, allowed himself to believe what his doctors had been telling him for months: This visit could be the ...

Children with sickle cell disease, a chronic hemolytic anemia ... High white cell count, low hemoglobin and oxyhemoglobin desaturation predict neurological complications. Other risk factors ...