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Sickle cell disease is a lifelong condition that can cause severe pain episodes and frequent emergency department visits.

UCSF researchers found that 64.4% of female patients report sickle cell disease (SCD) pain during menstruation. However, ...

What do healthy bone marrow cells in children look like? For the first time, researchers have mapped this out. Scientists at the Princess Máxima Center examined nearly 91,000 individual bone marrow ...

Sickle cell anemia (HbSS) is the homozygous dominant variant and the most common and severe form of the disease. Whereas patients who only inherited one gene encoding for abnormal HbS and a different ...

WNCT’s Erin Jenkins sits down with a sickle cell disease survivor and a doctor to learn more about how far their research has come.

WNCT’s Erin Jenkins sits down with a sickle cell disease survivor and a doctor to learn more about how far their research has come.

James Griffin, a Milwaukee resident living with sickle cell disease, highlights the importance of blood donations in managing his condition and improving his quality of life.

Across neuroscience, biomedical engineering and artificial intelligence, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University are exploring how pain is measured, understood and treated to support safer, more ...

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