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  1. A double-blind controlled trial of daily 20 mg zinc supplementation in 100 Ugandan children with sickle-cell anemia found that, after 6 months, infections from any cause were lower in the treatment group.

    Summary: medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08

    Original paper: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/

    #Science #Health #SickleCellAnemia #Zinc #Supplements #Uganda

  2. Living with Sickle Cell Anemia often feels like a constant battle — the pain, the fatigue, the emotional toll. But what if small, consistent strategies could help you take control & make daily life more manageable?

    This blog shares coping strategies that not only ease symptoms but also improve overall quality of life.

    drchetandhongade.com/science-a

    #SickleCellAnemia
    #CopingStrategies
    #ChronicIllness
    #HealthTips
    #PainManagement
    #BloodDisorders
    #WellnessJourney
    #LivingWithSickleCell
    #DrChetanDhongade

  3. The report was prompted by the death of 8-year-old Anadith Danay Reyes Álvarez, who died in May 2023 at a #CBP facility in Harlingen, TX. The Panamanian girl, who had a known history of #heart problems & #SickleCellAnemia, reportedly pleaded for help along with her mother. Both were ignored. She died in custody, her final hours spent in a facility whose staff were unequipped—& seemingly unwilling—to provide #CriticalCare.

    #Trump #immigration #law #HumanRights #Healthcare #TheCrueltyIsThePoint

  4. #Nebula-winning author R. S. A. Garcia (her short story this year was 'Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200') is fighting #cancer and, she just heard, some kind of #sickleCellAnemia and an #autoimmune disorder.

    She needs $10k for tests in the next 10 days: gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a-garc

  5. सिकल सेल एनिमिया रोकथाम के लिए चलाया गया जागरूकता अभियान।

    aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news

    #uttarakhand #dehradun #india #press #news #health #medical #medicine #awarness #SickleCellAnemia #anemia #medicalcamp

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  6. Could gene therapy be a #gamechanger in the fight against #sickle-cell anemia? | DW News

    There might be fresh hope for millions of people affected by #SickleCellDisease. In the #US, a new commercially licensed gene #therapy has been administered for the first time to a patient.
    It could be a gamechanger in the fight against this disorder of unusually-shaped red #blood cells that can disrupt the victims' blood flow. This leads to severe health complications including #chronic pain and organ damage, which can also be life threatening.
    The #genetic condition is found around the world but mainly among people with West or #CentralAfrican backgrounds. According to the World Health Organization 1,000 children are born with the disease every day in Africa. And the existing treatments can be rare and expensive.

    youtube.com/watch?v=YvhidtytB5

    #SickleCellAnemia #GeneTherapy #health #news #Afrika #Afrique #Africa #إفريقيا #tv #DW

  7. FDA approves first CRISPR therapy—here’s how it works against sickle cell - Enlarge / This digitally colorized scanning electron micrograph (SEM) r... - arstechnica.com/?p=1989840 #sicklecelldisease #sicklecellanemia #hemoglobin #science #health

  8. UK becomes first country to approve Crispr gene-editing therapy - Enlarge / Artist's conception of the CRISPR system in action, with the ... - arstechnica.com/?p=1984385 #sicklecellanemia #geneediting #syndication #health #crispr

  9. Human genome editing offers tantalizing possibilities – but without clear guidelines, many ethical questions still remain rawstory.com/human-genome-edit #Genome #Editing #Science #Ethics #CRISPR #DNA #Sequencing #AltText #news #eugenics #inequities #inequality #WHO #Cells #SickleCellAnemia #Controversial

    CRISPR - "Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats", can be used to accurately change specific DNA sequences.

    Any changes would be passed on to future generations.

  10. This is such a powerful tool. I say we should be able to use it on such things as kids with sickle cell anemia.


    NOVA | Human Nature | Season 47 | Episode 11

    We can now edit the human genome with a tool called CRISPR. But how far should we go?

    pbs.org/video/human-nature-hcw