Sentences with phrase «sickle cell anemia who»

Vanderbilt - led research, as part of an international, multicenter trial, found regular blood transfusion therapy significantly reduces the recurrence of silent strokes and strokes in children with sickle cell anemia who have had pre-existing silent strokes, according to study results released today in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

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Individuals who carry sickle cell trait (the unexpressed mutation of sickle cell anemia) are more likely to survive malaria and therefore, the trait is actually protective against a disease that is endemic in many parts of the world.

A child of parents who each possess one copy of the sickle - cell trait has a one - in - four chance of inheriting both sickle - cell alleles — and thus getting sickle - cell anemia.

In the 1970s, many blacks were denied jobs and insurance coverage because they carried a gene for sickle - cell anemia, including those who lacked the two copies of a mutation necessary to get sick.

«The one thing that I think that is useful is maybe when people write knockout papers they might describe the housing conditions in more detail,» says Chris Paszty, scientific director at the biotech company Amgen, Inc., headquartered in Thousand Oaks, Calif., who as a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developed a mouse model for the study of sickle cell anemia.

Ieshea Thomas, who has suffered from sickle cell anemia nearly all of her life, recently received a life - changing gift from...

She calls it «Better Days» after a group of her mother's friends who would hold parties, plays and fashion shows to raise money to fight sickle cell anemia, a disease that runs in her family.

Dr. Lester Fleming («Fleming») is an anesthesiologist who has sickle cell anemia.