A sickle cell disease “cure” is to be offered to NHS patients for the first time. The £1.65 million gene therapy called exa-cel, also known under the brand name Casgevy, uses a Nobel Prize ...

LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Britain's National Health Service (NHS) will provide a cutting-edge gene therapy that aims to cure sickle cell disease, the National Institute for Health and Care ...

Higher economic deprivation also associated with brain age gap in controls without sickle cell anemia. HealthDay News — Adults with sickle cell anemia (SCA) and healthy controls with greater ...

Sickle cell anaemia occurs when red blood cells change shape under low oxygen conditions, transforming into a sickle shape that can block blood flow. This blockage can result in pain in the ...

“Like someone is jamming a knife in me,” he said. But for a brief moment on a recent December morning, Wedam, 19, who has sickle cell disease, allowed himself to believe what his doctors had ...

The proteins that make cell-to-cell cargo transport possible. ScienceDaily . Retrieved February 12, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 / 250115165210.htm ...

Brain Age Modeling and Cognitive Outcomes in Young Adults With and Without Sickle Cell Anemia. JAMA Network Open , 2025; 8 (1): e2453669 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.53669 Cite This Page : ...

Reference: “Brain Age Modeling and Cognitive Outcomes in Young Adults With and Without Sickle Cell Anemia” by Andria L. Ford, Slim Fellah, Yan Wang, Kira Unger-Levinson, Maria Hagan, Martin N. Reis, ...

Sickle cell disease is a constant, annoying “companion” in my life. My list of grievances about the illness is never-ending, but one of the things I find most daunting is the disease’s unpredictable ...

Texas Children’s Global HOPE and Baylor College of Medicine Global Health, collaborating with the independent charity Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, have announced a pioneering program to combat ...