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St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix offers special test for children with stroke risk
Children's Rehabilitative Services (CRS) at St. Joseph's Children's Health Center in Phoenix is using a special ultrasound to identify the risk for stroke in children who have sickle cell disease. view more (2006-01-31)
Children's Hospital study demonstrates how bone marrow transplant can cure sickle cell disease
A unique approach to bone marrow transplantation pioneered in part by a Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC physician has proven to be the only safe and effective cure for sickle cell disease, according to a new study. view more (2008-11-07)
Children's national co-leads nationwide study of landmark sickle cell treatment
Children's National Medical Center immunologist and blood and marrow transplant physician Naynesh Kamani, MD, will serve as the study co-chair for a new national clinical trial of unrelated donor marrow and umbilical cord blood transplants for severe sickle cell disease. view more (2008-08-19)
Clumps of red and white blood cells may contribute to sickle cell disease
It's long been known that patients with sickle cell disease have malformed, "sickle-shaped" red blood cells - which are normally disc-shaped - that can cause sudden painful episodes when they block small blood vessels. view more (2008-04-29)
Screening to help prevent stroke in kids increases, but limited access a problem
The number of children with a certain blood disorder undergoing an ultrasound to help prevent stroke is up significantly in the past 10 years since the publication of a major study showing its benefits. view more (2009-04-14)
Anticlotting drug found to be safe in sickle cell patients
An intravenous "blood thinner" widely used in patients with acute coronary syndromes and during coronary artery stent placement appears to be safe in patients with sickle cell disease and may have beneficial anti-inflammatory effects, a small study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine has found. view more (2007-10-12)
University of Kent researchers tackle blood diseases
Researchers at the University of Kent have received grants totalling more than £160,000 to help the development of an NHS antenatal and neonatal screening programme set up to help combat two inherited medical conditions, sickle cell disease and thalassaemia, which carry a reduced life expectancy and require lifelong treatment. An estimated... view more... (2002-06-17)
Adult sickle cell drug proves effective in young children
A drug used for the treatment of sickle cell anemia in adults has now been shown to cause significant improvements in very young children with the disorder. view more (2005-09-20)
For children with sickle cell disease, lung disease is part of the package
Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) have a significantly sharper decline in lung function with age when compared to other children of the same race and age. view more (2008-05-19)
Network model predicts risk of death in sickle cell disease
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) have developed a method to estimate sickle cell disease severity and predict the risk of death in people with this disease. view more (2007-07-12)
New bone marrow model could help people with sickle cell disease
A new model showing how sickle cell blood cells operate within bone marrow is presented at a conference in Austria today. Researchers at Imperial College London, who developed the model, hope that it will eventually be used by clinicians to advance more effective treatments for sickle cell disease. This disease causes red blood cells to become... view more... (2005-02-18)
Nottingham project to improve treatment for patients with incurable blood disease
The new Sickle Cell Anaemia Detector research project, being launched today by MP Paul Boateng, has been funded with a £237,000 grant from the Big Lottery Fund - £112,000 of which will be coming to Nottingham - and involves partners at Imperial College and the Sickle Cell Society. view more (2005-04-01)
Ultrasound screening helps prevent stroke in children with sickle cell disease
Screening with an ultrasound machine has proved highly successful in preventing stroke among children with sickle cell disease, by identifying children who are then preventively treated with blood transfusions. view more (2008-12-08)
Effective treatment for sickle cell underused by doctors
Uncertainties about proper use and possible long-term effects of hydroxyurea in the treatment of sickle cell anemia may be wrongly influencing doctors to avoid prescribing it to those in serious need, according to results of a literature review by specialists at Johns Hopkins. view more (2008-06-18)
Simple test could predict major complications in sickle cell patients
Researchers have found that a simple test for an enzyme called LDH may have significant importance for determining major risk factors in adults with sickle cell disease. view more (2006-03-07)
Sickle cell disease corrected in human models using stem cell-based gene therapy
In a study to be published in the January 2006 issue of Nature Biotechnology, researchers led by a team of scientists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center have devised a novel strategy that uses stem cell-based gene therapy and RNA interference to genetically reverse sickle cell disease (SCD) in human cells. view more (2005-12-29)
UT Southwestern researchers investigate predictors for sickle-cell-anemia complications
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have determined that the level, or saturation, of oxygen in blood could be used to identify children with sickle cell anemia who are at an increased risk of stroke. view more (2008-02-29)
Gaining ground on sickle cell disease
Although sickle cell disease is a single-gene disorder, its symptoms are highly variable. In a study published online July 14 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists at Children's Hospital Boston and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), in collaboration with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, report five gene... view more... (2008-07-16)
Risk for stroke, death not higher for sickle cell children with early complications
Children with sickle cell disease who experienced major complications such as pain and lung disease early in life are at no greater risk for stroke or death during later childhood, new research from UT Southwestern Medical Center shows. view more (2007-01-30)
Blood test predicts sickle cell disease complication, identifies patients at high risk of death
A team of scientists with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health has found that a hormone detected in a simple blood test can identify patients with sickle cell disease who have developed a life-threatening complication called pulmonary hypertension. view more (2006-07-19)
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