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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As AIDS patients live longer they can experience a host of unexpected medical conditions, which challenge the prevailing view of the disease as chronic and manageable.
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Science & environment: Project will give unprecedented insight into why some people are more susceptible to disease than others
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One single change in inherited DNA can put people at a heightened risk of heart disease and strokes, according to new research. Richard Lifton and his colleagues at Yale University school of medicine report
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Biologists have uncovered a gene that switches off stem cells as a person ages.
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Geneology often holds the key to understanding the origin of serious diseases in those with a Hispanic heritage.
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Scientists have shown that a single protein plays a central role in the development of diabetes.
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Advances in imaging shed light on how the disease develops.
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CHICAGO -- Living to 100 is easier than you might think. Surprising new research suggests that even people who develop heart disease or diabetes late in life have a decent shot at reaching the century mark.
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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 18 (HealthDayNews) -- A generation ago, one in every 100 units of donated blood in the United States passed HIV or the hepatitis C virus to an unknowing recipient.
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NEW YORK  - Painful episodes in children   with sickle cell disease (SCD) and asthma are temporally   associated with respiratory symptoms, doctors from St. Louis,   Missouri, have noticed.
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NEW YORK  - Researchers have identified two  genetic mutations that are fairly common in individuals of  African descent and are associated with a 50 percent reduction  in LDL ("bad") cholesterol.
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OVER the past century huge medical and scientific advances have been made by learning more about genetics.
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Next-generation sequencing uncovers disease-causing microbes.
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Genetic evidence suggests humans have moved into the evolutionary fast lane and are becoming increasing different.
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The stamp, postal officials have said, is designed to raise awareness about the disease, which damages blood cells by changing them from smooth and round into sickle shapes and making them hard and sticky.
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It is becoming clear that the human genome responds to changes in diet, even though it takes many generations to do so.