Dr Mark Gillett, a consultant in sports and exercise medicine, tells The Athletic: “I’m not aware of it (sickle cell disease) in Premier League football or high-level football. I’ve not ...
Staff lined the hallway, cheering and waving noisemakers. He had just become the first patient to receive a gene therapy for sickle cell since it was approved — a therapy that is expected to ...
Sickle cell disease is an inherited condition that affects the oxygen-carrying hemoglobin protein in red blood cells. It carries a risk of a sickle cell crisis, pain, infections, and blood clots. The ...
A couple of months ago, I sat with the founder of the Disability and Sickle Cell Organisation of Nigeria, Mr Tayo Faloye, for an interview that has since been published online. Tayo himself is a ...
Sickle cell crisis is a health complication of sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder. It usually causes severe pain, and it happens due to an acute blood cell reaction. Sometimes sickle ...