Tag: sickle
Sickle cell screening for all newborns in France from November 1
News Published on 10/30/2024 at 3:06 p.m. updated on 10/30/2024 at 3:06 p.m. Reading 3 min. From November 1, screening for sickle cell disease (a hereditary genetic blood disease) will…
sickle cell anemia, a textbook case of medical research that forgets the most deprived – L’Express
Sickle cell anemia is by far the most common hereditary disease in the world: 10 million people affected in sub-Saharan Africa, 30,000 in France, with around 600 new cases per…
How gene therapy transformed the lives of sickle cell patients
News Published on 03/24/2024 at 9:02 a.m. Updated 03/24/2024 at 9:02 a.m. Reading 3 min. Their stories are shared between a before and an after. First, long years of illness,…
A revolutionary gene therapy approved to treat sickle cell disease
News Published on 12/21/2023 at 10:53 a.m. Updated 12/21/2023 at 10:53 a.m. Reading 3 min. A week after US authorities, the European Medicines Agency approved the first drug using CRISPR/Cas9,…
Sickle cell disease: the number of cases has increased by more than 50% in 10 years
News Published on 06/19/2023 at 08:17 Updated 06/19/2023 at 08:17 Reading 3 mins. On the occasion of World Sickle Cell Day, which will take place on June 19, several doctors…
Health: for better management of sickle cell disease, a rare disease that is progressing in France
Since the 2000s, screening for sickle cell disease, a genetic disease that causes bone deformation and pain, has been done in a targeted manner. In 2022, the High Authority for…
Sickle cell disease: France, the most affected country in Europe
It is called “the least rare of rare diseases”. Sickle cell disease, to which a world day is dedicated this Monday, June 19, has become a growing public health issue…
A “vampire” woman found buried with a sickle on her neck!
Archaeologists have just made a strange discovery: the remains of a woman, buried with a sickle above her neck, to prevent her from rising from the dead. But that’s not…
Curled sickle moss appears after 150 years in Tienhoven: ‘So the vibrating peat is doing really well’
What is no mystery is that the conditions in the Eastern Binnenpolder are apparently ideal for the moss species. “It is special that it is 150 years ago that this…