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The Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc. originated in Racine, Wisconsin. Representatives from 15 different community-based sickle cell organizations came together at Wingspread, a community center, as guest of the Johnson Foundation. There was a common belief that there was a need for national attention to sickle cell disease.
The Foundation operates two medical centres that provide care for the elderly, sickle cell disorder and maternal and child care. The Sickle Cell Care department of the Centre apart from disease management and care also offers counselling and outreach services. It is the most functional in a region that has a combined population of about 16 ...
Elouise Edwards MBE (28 December 1932 – 22 January 2021) was a community activist and civil rights campaigner. She was born in British Guiana and moved to Manchester, England in the 1960s, becoming known for her campaigns to fight racial discrimination and to develop community services in the Moss Side area of Manchester.
Specialty. Nephrology. Sickle cell nephropathy is a type of nephropathy associated with sickle cell disease which causes kidney complications as a result of sickling of red blood cells in the small blood vessels. The hypertonic and relatively hypoxic environment of the renal medulla, coupled with the slow blood flow in the vasa recta, favors ...
Sickle cell-Hb Lepore Boston syndrome is a type of sickle cell disease (HbS) that differs from homozygous sickle cell disease where both parents carry sickle hemoglobin. In this variant one parent has the sickle cell hemoglobin the second parent has Hb Lepore Boston, the only one of the three variants described in association with HbS.
Professor Falusi conducts research on the genetics of Sickle Cell Disease. She is currently focused on awareness and education of the public on sickle cell disease. She is a co-founder of Sickle Cell Association of Nigeria (SCAN), as well as the founder and trustee of the Sickle Cell Hope Alive Foundation.
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