Sentences with phrase «sickle cell disease who»

The study represents an important step toward more effectively treating certain patients with sickle cell disease who need frequent blood transfusions and currently have few options.

A new study in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine revealed that 44 percent of adults with sickle cell disease who report trouble sleeping actually have a clinical diagnosis of sleep disordered breathing, including sleep apnea, which lowers their oxygen levels at night.

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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.

Yes the home group will contain some higher risk moms (some VBAC, some breech, some GDM) but it won't contain the full spectrum of high risk that the hospital gets: Women with clotting disorders on heparin, maternal heart disease, moms addicted to crack, moms with HIV, 12 and 13 year olds, women who walk in off the streets in labor with no prenatal care, women with sickle cell and cystic fibrosis and type 1 diabetes, babies with severe anomalies.

Screening for sickle cell disease also finds babies who are carriers of this or other red blood cell diseases.

Pregnant women, mothers who have recently given birth, and people with sickle cell disease also require increased folate.

For his part, Collins, who has led NIH since 2009 and been kept on by the Trump administration, pointed to an array of promising NIH activities, including the development of new technologies to provide insights into human brain circuitry and function through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disease.

The new management guidelines consist of more than 500 specific directions for physicians who are caring for patients with sickle cell disease.

Currently, there are not enough physicians who specialize in the care of adults with sickle cell disease, which means that many are seen by primary care physicians or other specialists,» said Ms. Miller.

«These national guidelines are directed not just to hematologists but to all medical practitioners who might encounter sickle cell disease patients, to inform them about hydroxyurea and how to best offer general medical care to them,» Dr. Buchanan said.

Paizley, the teenager who was once nearly destroyed by sickle - cell disease, is now free of the illness that haunted her, free to attend school like all of her healthy friends.

He hopes the study will increase awareness among physicians who can screen for sleep disordered breathing in adults with sickle cell disease.

Travelers with medical conditions, such as heart disease, lung disease, high blood pressure, sickle cell disease, or women who may be pregnant, should be advised to consult a physician familiar with high - altitude medical issues before traveling to high altitude areas.

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.