Thirty-five states have agreed to participate in a federal pilot program aimed at helping Medicaid patients access costly ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I was recently at the American Red Cross to donate blood and was given interesting material on the need for Black blood donors for sickle cell anemia patients. The booklet ...

Nearly all of the staff at the Division of Blood Disorders and Public ... thrombophilia, hemophilia, sickle cell disease and thalassemia rely on. They said the abrupt changes to the division ...

You were born with sickle cell anemia and now you’re a mother of twins. How does it feel holding them in your arms? I feel proud for not giving up on myself. It wasn’t easy, but I thank God ...

In 2017, the FDA approved hydroxyurea to reduce the frequency of pain crises and the need for blood transfusions in pediatric patients ages 2 years and older with sickle cell anemia with recurrent ...

improves anemia, and reduces the risk of clots blocking blood vessels in the lungs. The drug helps red blood cells stay round and flexible, rather than sickle-shaped, according to St. Jude ...

The CDC’s Division of Blood Disorders ran the Sickle Cell Data Collection program, which assessed the long-term trends of treatment and access to health care for people living with sickle cell ...

People with an inherited blood disorder have actively avoided seeking ambulance ... NHS Trust and carried out by the Sickle Cell Society - into sickle cell patients' experiences of ambulance care, 999 ...