In a Lifetime of Sickle Cell, the Evolution of a Disease
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One womanâs career as a patient and an activist demonstrates how the understanding of sickle cell disease has changed.
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ATLANTA Doctors have halted a study on children with sickle cell anemia because two of the young patients have suffered strokes. The study was designed to determine whether children with the disease could be weaned off blood transfusion therapy.
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As technologically advanced as our country is today, it&#39;s both frustrating and heartbreaking that millions of Americans of all ages and across all social, cultural and ethnic groups are still battling life-threatening and debilitating diseases.
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For years, doctors have puzzled over the fact that some patients with follicular lymphoma succumb to the deadly blood cancer within a few years, while others survive for decades, even though their tumor cells look the same under the microscope.
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A single gene fault could hold the key to a range of disorders linked to heart disease and stroke, a study has found.
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Genetic breakthroughs and an unlikely drug offer hope for a disease ravaging the eyes of an aging population.
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Scientists have shown that a single protein plays a central role in the development of diabetes.
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Scientists have pinpointed mutations in an ancient protein that transformed its shape and function more than 400 million years ago.
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Advances in imaging shed light on how the disease develops.
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The key genes which lead the body&#39;s fight against HIV infection have been pinpointed by scientists. The work provides a greater understanding of how some people can survive symptom free for years, while others rapidly develop Aids.
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It has long been clear that chronic stress wreaks havoc on our health. Scientists have now found molecular signs of this harm. In a study of mothers of chronically ill children, the cells
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A single gene fault could hold the key to a range of disorders linked to heart disease and stroke, a study has found. A team from Yale University School of Medicine found the defect was linked to conditions
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A genetic mutation and environmental  factors before and after birth can increase the risk of  suffering from brittle bone disease decades later, researchers  said on Tuesday.
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Research and investment into  brain-related illnesses is growing at an unprecedented rate as  scientific advances coincide with the demands of an aging  baby-boom population determined to beat the odds.
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Researchers have found a new gene mutation responsible for a common form of inherited Parkinson's disease, a discovery that may eventually aid in treating all types of the degenerative brain disorder.
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Scientists discover four gene variants that increase the risk of developing the type 2 form of the disease. New clues about diagnosis and treatment.
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A study aimed at determining if some children with sickle cell anemia could be weaned off blood transfusion therapy has been halted because two young patients who stopped getting the procedure suffered strokes and others developed a high chance of strokes.