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New Advances in Sickle-Cell Disease Treatment
About -1 in every 12 African Americans- carries the gene mutation that causes sickle-cell disease, which ultimately affects 1 in 500 people of African descent. Sickle-cell disease can cause serious disability, and even death, in sufferers of nearly all ages. Treatments have helped to reduce the impacts of this potentially deadly condition, but so far, all efforts have worked merely to slow it down,...
January 28, 2021
10 Fascinating Heart Disease Facts Worth Knowing
INTRODUCTION - Several health agencies (including the CDC, the NIH, the American Heart Association, etc.) monitor trends and developments relating to cardiovascular disease (CVD).  One might expect that, statistically speaking, circumstances remain relatively the same from year to year but that is simply not so. Cardiovascular disease, for example, may have once been thought of as a “man’s disease”...
September 18, 2019