The new Sickle Cell Sanctuary in Southwest Atlanta resembles a typical spa with its plush seating area, massage chairs, and glass display of essential oils and herbal teas. The $1 million nonprofit ...

“To provide menstruating patients with sickle cell disease the best care, primary care physicians, gynecologists, and ...

Only 1 in 3 patients in an ER for sickle cell crisis receive opioid painkillers within the first hour as treatment guidelines ...

In December 2023, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved two new gene therapies that can cure sickle cell disease. The upsides: for the first time in 30 years, the therapies offer a chance at ...

The guidelines also differ in the follow-up assessment of patients while they are in the emergency room. The NHLBI also recommends reassessing patients every 15 to 30 minutes and readministering pain ...

Guideline adherence for opioid pain medications was found to be suboptimal among patients with sickle cell disease pain in the ED.

Researchers have found a link between the release from malformed red blood cells of the vital protein that carries oxygen and episodes of severe pain in people with sickle cell disease. The discovery ...

Most patients living with sickle cell disease who went to the emergency department of a U.S. hospital with a severe pain crisis were not triaged properly and faced long delays. Those triaged with a ...

A Fayetteville teen is making history in North Carolina after undergoing a new gene therapy for sickle cell disease. Aaron Scott was diagnosed with sickle cell at birth. Other WRAL Top Stories Sickle ...

Administration of opioid medications to people who present to the ED with acute sickle cell disease pain often does not happen as quickly as guidelines recommend, data presented at ASH Annual Meeting ...

Here are some things A. was told when she arrived at the hospital one night in June 2023. That she couldn’t have the pain medicine she usually got for a sickle cell crisis because she was six weeks ...

Contrary to misconceptions among medical professionals and patients alike, individuals born with sickle cell trait (SCT) show no risk of experiencing the acute pain crises known to occur with sickle ...