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  2. FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first ... - AOL

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    December 8, 2023 at 1:19 PM. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a powerful treatment for sickle cell disease, a devastating illness that affects more than 100,000 Americans, the ...

  3. US FDA approves two gene therapies for sickle cell disease - AOL

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    By Leroy Leo and Bhanvi Satija (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved two gene therapies for sickle cell disease, making one of them the first treatment in the ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Exagamglogene autotemcel - Wikipedia

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    DrugBank. DB15572. UNII. S53L777GM8. KEGG. D12749. Exagamglogene autotemcel, sold under the brand name Casgevy, is a gene therapy used for the treatment of sickle cell disease [1][3] and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia. [1] It was developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics.

  6. Marilyn Gaston - Wikipedia

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    Marilyn Gaston. Marilyn Hughes Gaston (born 31 January 1939) [1][2] is a physician and researcher. She was the first black woman to direct the Bureau of Primary Health Care in the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. [3] She is most famous for her work studying sickle cell disease (SCD).

  7. Tionne Watkins - Wikipedia

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    T-Boz opened up to the public about the disease in 1996; [26] she later became one of the spokespersons for Sickle Cell Disease Association of America. [27] [28] In 2002, she was hospitalized for four months due to a flare-up of sickle-cell anemia. [29] She is a national co-chair of the progressive organization Health Care Voter. [30]

  8. Sickle cell trait - Wikipedia

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    Hematology. Sickle cell trait describes a condition in which a person has one abnormal allele of the hemoglobin beta gene (is heterozygous), but does not display the severe symptoms of sickle cell disease that occur in a person who has two copies of that allele (is homozygous). Those who are heterozygous for the sickle cell allele produce both ...

  9. Parvovirus B19 increasing in US, CDC warns. How to ... - AOL

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    For most, the infection is mild. Symptoms include fever, headache, cough and sore throat, the CDC said. Common signs can be a fever or flu-like symptoms followed by a reddish “slapped cheek ...

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