Novartis recently received FDA approval to sell a drug aimed at relieving pain for those with sickle cell anemia, and it was first discovered in Oklahoma City. ...

We had data from 2010 to 2019 for children who had laboratory-confirmed sickle cell anemia. We asked two key questions. First, children generally are advised to receive penicillin twice a day ...

The what-ifs — if 50, not 10, labs pursued sickle cell; if Orkin had been able to enlist more scientists in the 1990s transcription-factor hunt; if Williams had had the resources to support four ...

In the quiet of a laboratory on the campus of England's Cambridge University, biochemist Vernon M. ... “It led to the kind of momentum that generated the 1972 Sickle Cell Anemia Act. ...

Sickle cell disease – often called sickle cell anemia, ... laboratory scientists tinker with those cells so they'll produce many more healthy red blood cells and almost no sickled ones.

Gene therapy is fighting to enter mainstream medicine. With sickle cell disease, the fight is heating up. Roughly two years ago, the FDA made the historic decision to approve the first gene therapy in ...

Sickle cell anemia patient Braxton Hubbard battled the disease for years, ... "For the first time, we're able to target the gene, correct it in his own cells in the lab, ...

THE bone marrow of patients with sickle-cell anemia usually shows normoblastic hyperplasia. ... Pertinent laboratory data are listed in Table 1. The peripheral smear showed sickle cells, ...