For sickle cell disease patients, Red Cross blood drives provide an important lifeline
CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Red Cross mission to prevent and relieve human suffering continues even when there's not an emergency, ...
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Benefits of Transplant for Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease Add Up a Decade Later
Transplant is beneficial earlier in life, Wang told MedPage Today, but carries potential short- and long-term side effects.
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The First Crispr Treatment Is Making Its Way to Patients
Called Casgevy, the gene-editing treatment is for people with sickle cell disease and a related blood disorder called beta thalassemia. UK regulators approved the treatment in November 2023 ...
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Biotech companies detail emerging efforts to ease ‘conditioning’ before genetic treatments
SAN DIEGO — The approval one year ago of two genetic medicines for sickle cell disease, including the first therapy powered by CRISPR gene editing, was a milestone for people living with a ...
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Hydroxyurea Shows Some Benefits in Milder Sickle Cell Disease
SAN DIEGO -- Treatment with hydroxyurea led to more hematologic dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs) compared with placebo in ...
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AML, sickle cell disease research among highlights of UC ASH abstracts
University of Cincinnati Cancer Center experts will present abstracts at the 66th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual ...
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Dueling glue degraders take on sickle cell disease
BMS isn’t the only firm trying to use degraders to tackle sickle cell disease. Novartis has a Wiz-targeting glue degrader, ...
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A sickle cell first: Base editing, a new form of gene therapy, leaves patient feeling ‘more than fine’
A new trial called BEACON, led at Boston Childrens Hospital by Dr. Matthew Heeney and sponsored by Beam Therapeutics, is testing base editing as a way to boost fetal hemoglobin production in patients ...
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Everything you need to know about sickle cells and sickle cell disease
Sickle cell disease is a condition little understood by most people around the world, despite it being the number one most ...
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A sickle cell first: Base editing, a new form of gene therapy, leaves patient feeling 'more than fine'
As he got older, he learned he had sickle cell disease. His red blood cells were forming sickle shapes and getting stuck in his blood stream, preventing oxygen from reaching his tissues.