This is a summary of a story originally on Duke University School of Nursing. Sickle cell disease occurs with the production of abnormally shaped red blood cells that resemble a sickle. These cells ...

University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing Alumna Ardie Pack-Mabien, PhD, FNP-BC (PhD 2018), was recently named Interim Director of the Johnson Haynes Jr., M.D., Comprehensive Sickle Cell ...

Biases in care for young adults with sickle cell disease could lead to lower quality of care for these patients. SCD affects approximately 100,000 Americans. It causes vaso-occlusion, which leads to ...

Logan and Erin Dorsey, who fought sickle cell anemia for 11 years, are now nurses at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, using their experiences to help others."Without God's grace, we ...

Nursing school is difficult and can be stressful for any student, but imagine studying, going to class and suffering a debilitating blood disorder like sickle cell anemia. A young Durham woman did ...

After attending the first annual Global Sickle Cell Disease Congress in Accra, Ghana, in 2010, Obiageli Nnodu returned home to Nigeria with a deep resolve to combat the disease in her own country.

Novel conditioning regimen improves survival and engraftment in sickle cell transplant patients with low graft versus host disease rates.

Logan and Erin Dorsey, who had sickle cell anemia for 11 years, are now nurses at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, using their experience to help others. "Without God's grace, we wouldn't ...