PRIMER Sickle cell disease Gregory J. Kato1, Frédéric B. Piel2, Clarice D. Reid3, Marilyn H. Gaston4, Kwaku Ohene‑Frempong5, Lakshmanan Krishnamurti6, Wally R. Smith7, Julie A. Panepinto8, David J. Weatherall9, Fernando F. Costa10 and Elliott P. Vichin...
The National Sickle Cell Anemia Control Act (Public Law 92–294) was signed into law in 1972 in response to a presidential initiative and congressional mandate257. The act provided for voluntary sickle cell disease (SCD) screening and counselling, education programmes for health professionals and th...
“When they are having fun, you know that if you join them, you will likely go into crisis. (…) They will laugh at you that you do not take part in any of the activities; that you are a HP (house pikin or house child) or you do not know anything.” In spite of such consequ...
To identify possible biomarkers for VOCs, the biomarkers panel conducted a PubMed query for “biomarker,”“pain,” and “sickle cell” including any articles in which potential biomarkers were assessed in human subjects with SCD during an acute pain crisis. Potential biomarkers assessed in patients...