Life-changing Sickle Cell Disease treatment approved by NHS watchdog A new automatic blood transfusion treatment will half the number of visits to hospital for people with Sickle Cell Disease Thousands of people suffering from Britain’s most common genetic disorder...
Monthly Archive:: March 2017
Teenager’s sickle cell reversed with world-first therapy
A French teenager’s sickle cell disease has been reversed using a pioneering treatment to change his DNA. The world-first procedure at Necker Children’s Hospital in Paris offers hope to millions of people with the blood disorder. Scientists altered the...
SICKLE CELL AND MEAT
In this day and age, where the doctors and medical papers are telling us that meat is not good for us and people are becoming vegetarians or vegans, my question then is should someone with Sickle Cell cut...
SICKLE CELL AND ANGER
If you suffer from Sickle Cell, then you will sometimes express impatience, short temperateness, snap and also express emotions of anger. I have noticed that when I am having a severe crisis, it is best to be in hospital...