Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

Allison, A. C. The distribution of the sickle-cell trait in East Africa and elsewhere, and its apparent relationship to the incidence of subtertian malaria. Transactions of the Royal Society of ...

Two hemoglobin mutations, including one that causes sickle cell anemia, may protect people from severe malaria by gumming up the cellular machinery the parasite uses to transmit deadly proteins to the ...

Sebastien Beauzile lived with the chronic pain of sickle cell anemia. Now, thanks to a groundbreaking genetic treatment, he ...

because in areas where malaria is common, there is a fitness benefit in carrying only a single sickle-cell gene (sickle cell trait). Those with only one of the two alleles of the sickle-cell ...

Sebastien Beauzile is the first person in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia due to a genetic treatment called Lyfgenia.

During pregnancy, anemia can result in higher occurrences of anxiety and depression, premature labor, postpartum hemorrhage, ...

And so to reduce these mortalities due to malaria, nature has got its own way of responding. Now, if you have the sickle cell trait, then you are protected against malaria. My county of Bungoma is ...

known as having sickle cell trait, increases the risk of blood clots, a risk that is the same among diverse human populations that ... Jan. 30, 2025 — A systematic literature review found no ...

Esther Nkemakolam runs her fingers through kinetic sand and sings a “Moana” song as UPMC Children’s Hospital nurse Taylor Brennan gets to work drawing blood. Esther is back for her monthly blood ...

Five seemingly unconnected Black and ethnic minority Londoners discover they have superpowers in the hit Netflix series "Supacell". The link between them? They all suffer from sickle cell anaemia ...

The death of a Central Dauphin High School student has shaken the community. According to the Dauphin County Coroner's Office, 16-year-old Justin Johnson died of complications of sickle cell disease.