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  2. Hundreds turn out for sickle cell awareness march - AOL

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    The 10-year-old suffers from sickle cell and is one of more than 100,000 in the country who do battle with the blood disorder. More than 90 percent of those affected are African American, though ...

  3. Sickle cell disease - Wikipedia

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    Sickle cell disease (SCD), also simply called sickle cell, is a group of hemoglobin-related blood disorders typically inherited. [2] The most common type is known as sickle cell anemia. [2] It results in an abnormality in the oxygen-carrying protein haemoglobin found in red blood cells. [2] This leads to a rigid, sickle -like shape under ...

  4. ‘Supporters of Families with Sickle Cell’ founders are ...

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    Having sickle cell disease also raises your risk for severe illness from COVID-19.” According to the CDC, sickle cell disease occurs among about 1 out of every 365 Black or African-American ...

  5. Sickle Cell Disease Association of America - Wikipedia

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    The Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc. originated in Racine, Wisconsin. Representatives from 15 different community-based sickle cell organizations came together at Wingspread, a community center, as guest of the Johnson Foundation. There was a common belief that there was a need for national attention to sickle cell disease.

  6. For people with sickle cell disease, ERs can mean life ... - AOL

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    Advocates for sickle cell patients said investment in data collection to track the disease is also important. Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that some 100,000 ...

  7. Willie Stargell - Wikipedia

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    For a decade, BAF, renamed the Willie Stargell Foundation, raised research money and public awareness about the disease. Starting in 1981, sickle cell awareness and fundraising was gradually being assumed by The Sickle Cell Society Inc. The Willie Stargell Foundation transitioned to raising money for treatment of and research into kidney disease.

  8. Harvey Itano - Wikipedia

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    A Rapid Diagnostic Test for Sickle Cell Anemia (1950) Harvey Akio Itano (Japanese: ハーベイ・アキオ・イタノ[1], November 3, 1920 – May 8, 2010) was an American biochemist best known for his work on the molecular basis of sickle cell anemia and other diseases. In collaboration with Linus Pauling, Itano used electrophoresis to ...

  9. The Sickle Cell Society - Wikipedia

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    The Sickle Cell Society , established as a registered charity in 1979, was founded by a group of people with sickle cell disease, their parents and their physicians, aims to improve understanding and management of the condition.

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