To celebrate her birthday 5th December, Ghanaian actress Jackie Appiah donated a Day Care Centre to the Children’s Clinic at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana. Jackie’s wellknown compassion for the disadvantaged was heightened when her friend, Jo-Anne Badu succumbed to SCD complications in 2019. In a statement to mark the hand over of Jackie’s Corner…
Sickle Cell Disease Association names chief medical officer, board chair HANOVER, Md.—Sickle Cell Disease Association of America named Dr. Lewis Hsu chief medical officer and JaKela Walker chair of the board of directors. Chief Medical Officer Dr. Lewis Hsu is a pediatric hematologist who serves as director of the Sickle Cell Center and professor of…
Research states Paracetamol, Ibruprofen, Panadol and other analgesics for chronic pain can do much more harm than good It’s a common scene at Sickle Cell Club meetings in Africa and elsewhere. Children and adults are given painkillers of various brands to meet pain head on. Some Clubs are savvy enough to warn againts use outside…
In her wildest imagination, Abiola Hafsat Bashorun never thought she would win the 2006 Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (MBGN) Beauty Contest. Little did her widowed mother know, when she procured the entry forms for her daughter to beat the tedium of idleness – the result of Abiola’s after-school unemployment – that it was a…