Sickle cell anemia News

THURSDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Greater use of certain types of treatments for kids with sickle cell anemia may explain why black children's risk of ischemic stroke dropped significantly between 1999 and 2007, new research finds. The disparit...

FRIDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Children with sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder, who also have high blood pressure and/or anemia are at increased risk for so-called "silent strokes," according to a new study. Silent strokes, whic...

FRIDAY, Sept. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Children with sickle cell disease experience more life-threatening complications from the H1N1 swine flu than from seasonal flu, a new study has found. This means that doctors and parents need to be aware that c...

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say that a new method of bone marrow transplantation cured nine out of 10 adult patients with sickle cell disease, an inherited condition that causes bouts of severe pain, organ damage and sharply ...

TUESDAY, July 28 (HealthDay News) -- The first clinical trial of a treatment for pulmonary hypertension in adults with sickle cell anemia has been stopped because of severe side effects in some participants. The trial involved sildenafil -- market...

MONDAY, April 13 (HealthDay News) -- A specialized ultrasound scan is helping more children with sickle cell disease avoid strokes, but that good news is tempered by the limited access most children with the disease have to labs offering this scre...