Dartmouth Holds Blood Drive Focused on Sickle Cell Disease

Dartmouth holds blood drive focused on sickle cell disease

Donations made Monday at Dartmouth College can go a long way toward helping people with the most common genetic blood disorder in the United States.

Comprehensive SCD care may reduce emergency visits for adults

A program that provides integrated primary and specialist care for adults with sickle cell disease (SCD) significantly reduced emergency department visits, according to a study from Massachusetts General Hospital. “Our Comprehensive Sickle Cell Disease Center (CSCDC) is one of few comprehensive adult care models that integrates [primary care physicians] with outpatient visits and helps establish patients with primary care,” researchers wrote. Th…

How Art is healing the minds of children with sickle cell in Gulu

A sickle cell patient paints a drawing during the Art Ease session at Gulu Regional Referral Hospital. PHOTO URN GULU, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | Behind the Sickle Cell Clinic at Gulu Regional Referral Hospital, the tables are alive with colored drawings of parents with their kids, smiling suns, green-haired ladies, and the sick on hospital beds. For an 11-year-old George Opiro* (not real name) whose mother asked that his real name should not be…