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  2. Pfizer withdraws sickle cell disease treatment on risk of ...

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    (Reuters) -U.S. drugmaker Pfizer said on Wednesday it is withdrawing its sickle cell disease treatment Oxbryta from all markets where it is approved, citing risks of a painful complication and deaths.

  3. Pfizer's Oxbryta exit may hasten trials of rival experimental ...

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    Pfizer's decision late on Wednesday to withdraw its sickle cell disease treatment due to the risk of death could help speed up trials of new experimental rivals, Wall Street analysts said. Oxbryta ...

  4. Sickle cell disease - Wikipedia

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    Sickle cell disease (SCD), also simply called sickle cell, is a group of hemoglobin-related blood disorders typically inherited. [2] The most common type is known as sickle cell anemia. [2] It results in an abnormality in the oxygen-carrying protein haemoglobin found in red blood cells. [2] This leads to a rigid, sickle -like shape under ...

  5. FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first ... - AOL

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    In patients with sickle cell disease, red blood cells, which are usually disk-shaped, take on a crescent or sickle shape. ... but Verdun said the agency thought the deaths "rose to the level of a ...

  6. Category:Deaths from sickle-cell disease - Wikipedia

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    Deaths from sickle-cell disease. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:People with sickle-cell disease. It includes People with sickle-cell disease that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.

  7. Sickle cell trait - Wikipedia

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    The sickle cell trait provides a survival advantage against malaria fatality over people with normal hemoglobin in regions where malaria is endemic. The trait is known to cause significantly fewer deaths due to malaria, especially when Plasmodium falciparum is the causative organism.

  8. Acute chest syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Acute chest syndrome. The acute chest syndrome is a vaso-occlusive crisis of the pulmonary vasculature commonly seen in people with sickle cell anemia. This condition commonly manifests with a new opacification of the lung (s) on a chest x-ray. [1]

  9. For people with sickle cell disease, ERs can mean life ... - AOL

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    For people living with the disease, a sickle cell crisis can happen at any time. When it does, their rigid, sickle-shaped red blood cells become stuck in their blood vessels, blocking flow and ...

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