Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy travelling through your blood vessels. They are delivering oxygen to all the different ...

Accumulation of clots causes some of the most severe symptoms of sickle cell disease, including strokes, kidney failure, ...

A groundbreaking sickle cell disease treatment has been approved for use in the UK's National Health Service (NHS). The treatment offers patients with severe forms of the condition hope for a ...

A new study shows how an anticancer drug triggers an "outside in" signal that gets it sucked into a cancer cell.

Sickle cell anaemia is a genetic blood disorder characterised by the production of an abnormal haemoglobin, known as haemoglobin S. Sickle cell disease changes the shape of blood cells into a crescent ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved suzetrigine under the brand name Journavx on Jan. 30, 2025. Journavx is a first-in-class non-opioid painkiller that acts on sodium channels in the ...

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 ...

The drugs used to treat cancer damage healthy cells and tissues, including the nervous system. The effects can manifest in movement disturbances, such as loss of balance or coordination, and sensory ...

particularly Class A drugs, causes massive harm to our communities. “As well as the damage it can cause to the life of the person taking them, the production and supply of drugs brings with it ...

Participants will have the chance to engage in family-friendly activities, including face painting, a bounce house, food trucks, and live entertainment, while simultaneously supporting a critical ...

People also tended to have older brains if they came from an impoverished household, even if they didn’t have sickle cell disease. “Our study explains how a chronic illness and low socioeconomic ...

Health workers in the eastern district of Budaka in Bukedi Sub-region have registered a decline in cases of sickle cell disease ... disorder that causes red blood cells to misshapen and break ...