COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Nearly one year after the death of a Missouri football player who had the sickle cell trait, college medical officials are considering whether to require preseason tests for the blood ...

Sickle cell disease—the subject of a new Seminar in The Lancet—is one of the most prevalent and fastest-growing genetic disorders worldwide. Although its true prevalence is difficult to determine ...

The Washington Post reports that colleges and universities are requiring top athletes to be tested for the sickle cell gene. The goal is to protect athletes from sudden death if they have undiagnosed ...

Joy Watitwa's ill health started when only four months old. She has fought sickle cell disease for 37 years now, and although in pain for most of her life, Watitwa has tried not to let the disease ...

$3 million federal grant awarded to Hemex Health to develop first point-of-care sickle cell testing device for U.S. market; technology developed by CWRU engineer A private company’s effort to bring ...

WASHINGTON - Thousands of families carry the gene that causes sickle cell disease and don't know it - even though almost every newborn today is tested for what's called "sickle cell trait," and ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- For years, sickle cell disease, which affects red blood cells with many complications and primarily impacts the African-American community, was known as the forgotten disease. While ...

September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness about the genetic blood disorder that remains under-treated. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ...

U.S. colleges and universities for the first time are requiring top student athletes to submit to testing for the gene for sickle cell anemia, a mandate aimed at preventing sudden deaths of promising ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of genetic blood disorders. A person inherits SCD from their parents when they inherit two copies of the sickle cell gene, one from each parent. This hereditary ...

Newborn screening programs to detect serious metabolic disorders before they become symptomatic are now well-established in all developed countries, and have been introduced to a greater or lesser ...

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