Sickle Cell Disease
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News
CDC | Many Children With Sickle Cell Anaemia In The US Not Receiving Lifesaving Screening And Treatment
According to a recent CDC study, fewer than half children with the disease in the US get the necessary screening, and only about half or fewer get treatment with hydroxyurea…
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SAFER BLOOD | EU Patients Have Begun Receiving Transfusions With Hemanext ONE® RBC Processing & Storage System
Doctors have begun transfusing patients suffering from hematological malignancies using RBCs processed and stored with the Hemanext ONE® system, as part of a post-market clinical study in Bergen, Norway. This is…
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Scientific Literature
Precision Medicine and Sickle Cell Disease
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is characterized by variable clinical outcomes, with some patients suffering life-threatening complications during childhood, and others living relatively symptom-free into old age. Because of this variability,…
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SICKLE CELL DISEASE | African Health Ministers Launch Drive to Curb SCD’s Toll
This effort, backed by the African Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO), aims to curb SCD΄s toll in a region that has historically been hit hard by this…
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Oxbryta Gets Marketing Authorisation In The UK For Patients With Sickle Cell Disease
Voxelotor, an oral treatment taken once daily, is the first medicine authorized in Great Britain that directly inhibits sickle haemoglobin (HbS) polymerization, the molecular basis of sickling and destruction of…
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POLICY NEWS | TIF Issues Statement On The New EU Regulation For Blood, Tissues And Cells
This single Regulation, once approved by Member States, will replace all existing EU Directives on Blood, Tissues and Cells and will be equally applicable in the EU territory. The proposal…
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Sickle Cell Disease Related Mortality in Brazil, 2000-2018
Introduction There is a demand to update national mortality trends data related to sickle cell disease (SCD) in Brazil. This study describes causes of death and mortality issues related to…
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l-glutamine, crizanlizumab, voxelotor, and cell-based therapy for adult sickle cell disease: Hype or hope?
For more than two decades, hydroxyurea was the only therapeutic agent approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for sickle cell disease (SCD). Although curative allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants (allo-HSCT) were also available, only…
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Biologic and Clinical Efficacy of LentiGlobin for Sickle Cell Disease
BACKGROUND Sickle cell disease is characterized by the painful recurrence of vaso-occlusive events. Gene therapy with the use of LentiGlobin for sickle cell disease (bb1111; lovotibeglogene autotemcel) consists of autologous…
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Clinical News
What’s New In Clinical Trials For Thalassaemia/Sickle Cell Disease Drugs And Therapies?
Many pharmaceutical companies are making remarkable progress in their research into candidate treatments for these diseases and 2022 is expected to be yet another eventful year for haemoglobin disorders! Check…
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