EXPERTS from 16 countries drawn from Africa, India and the United States have launched an initiative to improve sickle cell disease detection and treatment across African Union member states Dr Peter ...

An international team, including astronomers from Keele University, has performed a unique cosmic test to measure the mass of ...

The excavation, which followed the discovery of two Roman swords in 2023, is providing historians with fresh insights into ...

Sickle cell anemia can cause serious complications, most of which are medical emergencies that require immediate treatment. Learn more about them, so you can act promptly and receive the treatment ...

The hallmark symptom of sickle cell anemia is pain, particularly episodes of sudden pain, sometimes called sickle cell crises.

An international research team has found that black eye makeup used between the 9th and 7th centuries BCE in the northwest of ...

Objectives To provide lay information about genetics and sickle cell disease (SCD) and to identify and address ethical issues concerning the Sickle Cell Disease Genomics of Africa Network covering ...

The 1,000-year-old skeleton, which was found alongside jewellery, a dog and textiles, probably belongs to the wife of a ...

An Iron Age Roman settlement has been discovered following a rare sword find, archaeologists have revealed. The excavation ...

Filmmaker Toba Gold premieres his powerful documentary, Surviving Sickle Cell Africa, in Washington D.C., highlighting the struggles and resilience of those affected by this disease. Learn more.

Sickle Cell advocacy groups in Lagos have called on both federal and state governments to enact legislation mandating genotype screening for all newborns and citizens, as part of efforts to curb ...

"The Gilded Age," created by "Downton Abbey's" Julian Fellowes, follows high society and the battle between old and new money in 1800s New York.