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Budget. $1,641,000 [1] Box office. $1,600,000 (US/ Canada rentals) [2] A Warm December is a 1973 American romantic drama film directed by Sidney Poitier and starring him in the lead role as Dr. Matt Younger. It also stars Jamaican actress Esther Anderson as Catherine, Matt's love interest. Anderson's performance as an African princess won her ...
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 the red blood cells adopting an abnormal ...
The film features the story of David Sanchez, a young man with sickle cell disease. [6] He is first featured in the hospital, sharing his experience as he gets a red blood cell transfusion. This treatment is currently one of the only available for people with sickle cell to help manage severe pain crises.
The mother of a teenager with sickle cell disease said medical treatment for the genetic blood disorder was a "postcode lottery". ... More on this story. UK approves gene-edit drug for sickle cell ...
Dame Elizabeth Nneka Anionwu OM DBE FRCN (born Elizabeth Mary Furlong; 2 July 1947) is a British nurse, health care administrator, lecturer, and Emeritus Professor of Nursing at the University of West London. In 1979, Anionwu became the United Kingdom's first sickle-cell and thalassemia nurse specialist, helping establish the Brent Sickle Cell ...
Mendelian traits in humans. A 50/50 chance of inheritance. Sickle-cell disease is inherited in the autosomal recessive pattern. When both parents have sickle-cell trait (carrier), a child has a 25% chance of sickle-cell disease (red icon), 25% do not carry any sickle-cell alleles (blue icon), and 50% have the heterozygous (carrier) condition. [1]
By comparison, research earlier this year showed medical expenses for current sickle cell treatments, from birth to age 65, add up to about $1.6 million for women and $1.7 million for men.
The Sickle Cell Society. 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. [1][2][3][4][5] Its chief executive is John James. [6]