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- Strokes Can Strike the Youngest 21 Aug 2008 17:34 GMT
... the brain is cut off, sometimes by a blood clot or possibly due to sickle cell disease. Without blood, the brain can't get the oxygen it needs to survive. Ischemic strokes ...
- AFRICA: Little help for those who suffer from blood disorder 21 Aug 2008 15:00 GMT
... Sickle cell disease takes a heavy toll on children, making them vulnerable to infection DAKAR, 2 March ...
- NIGERIA: Sickle-cell disorder killing 100,000 infants a year 21 Aug 2008 13:29 GMT
... Mustapha Kabiru is three years old and crippled by ... At least 100,000 infants die from the sickle-cell genetic disorder in Nigeria every year, and ... available statistics, 100,000 infants die from sickle-cell disease in Nigeria annually, making it the number ...
- Two Houston art exhibits, one intense look at race 21 Aug 2008 07:56 GMT
... Drapetomania: A Disease Called Freedom — Art and Artifacts From ... Breakfast for Children program, free testing for sickle cell anemia and other programs that are too easily ...
- Two art exhibits, one intense look at race 21 Aug 2008 00:26 GMT
... Drapetomania: A Disease Called Freedom — Art and Artifacts From ... Breakfast for Children program, free testing for sickle cell anemia and other programs that are too easily ...
- Jammin' the weekend away 20 Aug 2008 09:16 GMT
... Ras Lee, and Mackendy. The festival is committed to raising awareness and fundraising for sickle cell anemia for the CHEO Foundation. Sickle cell anemia is an inherited blood condition that affects ...
- Sasha's parents put up dengue death certificate in Freeport 20 Aug 2008 05:23 GMT
... in mourning: Gloria and Rodney Bickram, parents of young ... her daughter had long been treated for sickle-cell thalassaemia, for which she was hospitalised several ... in the past. Medical dictionaries define the disease as a genetic blood disorder that is ...
- 'DON'T MAKE US LIARS' 20 Aug 2008 05:23 GMT
... in mourning: Gloria and Rodney Bickram, parents of young ... her daughter had long been treated for sickle-cell thalassaemia, for which she was hospitalised several ... in the past. Medical dictionaries define the disease as a genetic blood disorder that is ...
- Erectile Dysfunction: Beyond the Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors 20 Aug 2008 04:46 GMT
... vascular risk factors including hypertension, coronary artery disease (CAD), high cholesterol, and diabetes are at ... anatomical deformation of the penis, leukemia, myeloma, sickle cell disease, predisposition to priapism, or hypersensitivity to ...
- New sickle cell unrelated transplant trial 20 Aug 2008 00:17 GMT
... trial of this treatment. If successful, the Sickle Cell Unrelated Transplant (SCURT) trial has the potential ... to treat severe cases of sickle cell disease. However these treatments have been available only ...
- transplanted organs 19 Aug 2008 21:37 GMT
... reactions usually are not very severe, but sometimes do cause renal failure. Patients with sickle cell anemia are at greater risk of having delayed hemolytic reactions because they often receive many ...
- Nigeria most sickle-cell endemic country in Africa: official 19 Aug 2008 15:52 GMT
... Nigeria most sickle-cell endemic country in Africa: official KANO, Nigeria ... than half the child deaths from the disease in Africa each year, an expert said ... far as sickle-cell is concerned," Musa said. Sickle cell can be treated through costly and complicated bone-marrow ...
- Xechem Targets Daily Production of 50,000 Nicosan Capsules 19 Aug 2008 13:32 GMT
... Ltd, manufacturers of Nicosan - currently reknowed as the most efficient drug for management sickle cell disease - is boosting output with fresh investments over N1billion for building an additional plant. ...
- At last, law addresses genetic testing in employment, insurance 19 Aug 2008 12:32 GMT
... health insurance costs will be high? If sickle cell anemia runs in your family, is it fair ... to educate and support people with genetic-influenced diseases delighted in the bill's passage. It is, ...
- Nationwide Study Of Landmark Sickle Cell Treatment 19 Aug 2008 07:32 GMT
... national clinical trial of unrelated donor marrow and umbilical cord blood transplants for severe sickle cell disease. Children's National will join more than 20 other medical institutions in the first-ever Phase ...
- Landmark Sickle Cell Disease Trial To Investigate Unrelated Donor Marrow And Umbilical Cord Blood Transplants 19 Aug 2008 05:51 GMT
... many years, doctors have used blood or marrow transplants to treat severe cases of sickle cell disease. However these treatments have been available only to patients with a matched family member ...
- Testing genes, solving little 18 Aug 2008 23:55 GMT
... You could discover their sex. That's easy. You could also ... greatly increases the odds of getting Alzheimer's disease. Forms of several genes have been strongly ... genetic diseases we already knew about, like sickle-cell anemia and Huntington's disease. But for many ...
- Disabled Man Spends Over Six Hours on Metro 18 Aug 2008 21:15 GMT
... hours a day to get to and from school. A stroke brought on by sickle cell anemia left Smith with both cognitive and physical disabilities, and he says Metro isn't making ...
- Stem-cell bank gets help from new moms' donated umbilical-cord blood 18 Aug 2008 20:16 GMT
... typically are transplanted in children to fight diseases. "You're donating something that's going to be ... the most common are leukemia, lymphoma and sickle cell, said Christine Wagner, the Karmanos bank's supervisor ...
- Children's national co-leads nationwide study of landmark sickle cell treatment 18 Aug 2008 17:16 GMT
... Children's national co-leads nationwide study of landmark sickle cell treatment WASHINGTON, DCChildren's National Medical Center immunologist ... to treat severe cases of sickle cell disease. However these treatments have been available only ...
- APA Task Force Calls For Reframing Research To Address Resilience Among Black Youth 18 Aug 2008 12:17 GMT
... health conditions disproportionately affect African-American youth, including obesity, poor oral health, asthma, violent injury, sickle cell anemia, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS. Research has proven that improved physical health is more likely to ...
- Stem-cell bank gets help from new moms; ProMedica collecting umbilical cord blood 18 Aug 2008 11:30 GMT
... away,” she added. While umbilical cord blood units can be used to treat many diseases, the most common are leukemia, lymphoma, and sickle cell, said Christine Wagner, the Karmanos bank’s supervisor of cord procurement. Karmanos opened the cord ...
- Guest Columnist: Testing Genes, Solving Little 17 Aug 2008 19:52 GMT
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