(WIBW) - African Americans give blood at a rate of three percent yearly, compared to their non-black counterparts. This makes ...

I was recently at the American Red Cross to donate blood and was given interesting material on the need for Black blood ...

Hydroxyurea remains effective long-term in reducing emergency department visits and hospital days for children living with ...

What was puzzling was why sickle cell anemia was so prevalent in some African populations. How could a "bad" gene-- the mutation that causes the sometimes lethal sickle cell disease -- also be ...

Listen to a short summary Read by Guy R. Your browser does not support the audio element.Sickle cell disease is a serious ...

sickle cell disease affects 90,000 to 100,000 people in the United States. But the disorder largely affects Blacks or African Americans, occurring in one out of every 500 births. It also affects ...

Sickle-cell trait haplotype ... This leads to leads to anemia, as well as congestion and fibrosis of the spleen at an early age. In contrast to these non-African cases of SCA due to breeding ...

On this map, the distribution of sickle-cell anemia haplotypes among nations with ... haplotype within a given study group. CAR= Central African Republic. Data were taken from Monteiro et al., ...

“With the new genetic markers described in this study, we now know 90% of the genes associated with the production of fetal hemoglobin in sickle cell disease patients of African ancestry.

Sickle cell is the most common genetic blood disorder in the UK with approximately 17,500 people living with the condition. The disease which typically affects people of African and Caribbean ...

Learn more. DEAR DR. ROACH: I was recently at the American Red Cross to donate blood and was given interesting material on the need for Black blood donors for sickle cell anemia patients.