Following a breakthrough 'cure' for sickle cell disease being approved on the NHS, the Mirror sat down with four British ...

Yet treatment for sickle cell disease has been limited for years ... “I have been on a six-weekly exchange blood transfusion for a few years now. The process includes removing some of my ...

The company has approved medicines that treat the underlying causes of multiple chronic, life-shortening genetic diseases cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease and transfusion-dependent beta ...

E and K antigens that can also cause transfusion reactions, especially when a person has gotten many blood transfusions. This is frequently the case in people with sickle cell disease, the vast ...

Children with sickle cell disease ... with hypertension after transfusion or corticosteroids. Seizures are particularly common in patients with cerebrovascular disease and covert infarction ...

A new 24/7 emergency transfusion service is set ... and will now get a red cell exchange every six weeks to manage her sickle cell disease. She said: "Having a local red cell exchange service ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Someone in the United States requires a blood transfusion every two seconds. For individuals ...

A 24-hour-a-day emergency blood transfusion service described as ... Dami Olorunfemi, 40, was born with sickle cell disease and said the symptoms were "excruciatingly painful", affecting every ...

While thalassemia is caused by a defect in the beta-globin gene, controlling the production of the beta-globin chains of haemoglobin, sickle cell disease is caused by a defect in haemoglobin ...