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Genotype Awareness Is Key To Breaking The Sickle Cycle

- Ismaila Olatunji Sule, Founder/CEO, TunMicro Foundation Ismaila Olatunji Sule, Founder/CEO, TunMicro addressing students at a school in Nigeria Ismaila ...

FaithMichael Smile Foundation, Rotary Club Shower APLSCD With Donations

In separate donations mid-February 2019 from the Faithmicheal Smile Foundation and the Rotary Club of Awka Smith-town District 9142, the ...
College Graduate Mikeia Green

SCD no hindrance to achievement – Mikeia Green

‘I knew there were a lot of things I could do to help myself stay healthy. I didn’t want to ...
Robby Robinson

Impossible! Former Mr. America, Mr. Universe Lives With Sickle Cell Anaemia

Body-building is not for weaklings – it is a tasking, grueling, hellish mind-body discipline from which the hardiest of men ...

25 Minutes In Enugu, Nigeria

Too good to be true, you’d say, but this is what a parent related to me after a short trip ...

Vaso-Occlusive Pain Crises Linked to Menstruation in Some Patients

Acute vaso-occlusive pain is associated with the onset of menstruation, and about 25% of the women with sickle cell disease ...

‘I’m In Pain 24/7, But Sickle Cell Can’t Stop Me!’ – Billionaire businessman with sickle cell anaemia

Youthful Ademola Majekodunmi His father ejected him and his mum from the family home – the elder Majekodunmi was fed ...

Crizanlizumab receives FDA Breakthrough Therapy designation for the prevention of vaso-occlusive crises

Crizanlizumab is a monthly infusion under development to prevent pain crises (also called vaso-occlusive crises, or VOCs) in patients with ...

If you have SCD, you must SOAR like Gail Campbell Woolley

SOAR like Gail Campbell Woolley When Gail Campbell Woolley was seven, a pediatrician told her mother that Gail suffered from ...

Fatimah Had A Stroke At 7, and recovered 100%

Fatimah taking a selfie When both parents have sickle cell trait (SCT), there is a 1 in 4 chance that ...