Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

The new findings should encourage allo-SCT for sickle cell disease in children with a matched sibling donor and abnormal cerebral velocities or severe baseline hemolytic anemia, a known risk ...

Children with sickle cell disease, a chronic hemolytic anemia, present with a wide variety ... and can prevent first stroke in those with high transcranial Doppler velocities.

Can we predict that natural selection will weed out genetic disease over time? Sickle-cell trait haplotype distribution shows the genetic advantages of this mutation. In the deoxygenated ...

Hydroxyurea remains effective long-term in reducing emergency department visits and hospital days for children living with ...