In the Media Tag: sickle cell


Starlard-Davenport awarded nearly $1 million for sickle cell research 

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A new research project that could impact and expand the discovery of new treatment options for sickle cell patients has received significant federal funding. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute awarded nearly $1 million to Athena Starlard-Davenport, PhD, assistant professor of Genetics, Genomics, and Informatics in the UTHSC College of Medicine, for her project… Read More


UTHSC sickle cell researcher on ground floor in latest FDA approvals

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November was affirming for Dr. Kenneth Ataga, physician-researcher at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and director of its Center for Sickle Cell Disease. Ataga is from Nigeria, where an estimated 1 million people, including 250,000 newborns every year, have sickle cell. In the space of 10 days last month, the FDA approved two… Read More


 Mother hopes daughter will benefit from new FDA approved sickle cell treatment

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Patients with sickle cell disease will soon have a new treatment option to reduce pain crises caused by obstructed blood flow. The FDA has approved use of the drug crizanlizumab based on the results of a clinical trial led by Kenneth Ataga, MD, Plough Foundation Endowed Chair in Sickle Cell Disease and director of the… Read More


New Novartis medicine Adakveo® (crizanlizumab) approved by FDA to reduce frequency of pain crises in individuals living with sickle cell disease

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Novartis announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Adakveo® (crizanlizumab), previously known as SEG101, to reduce the frequency of vaso-occlusive crises (VOCs), or pain crises, in adult and pediatric patients aged 16 years and older with sickle cell disease.4 Adakveo represents the first FDA-approved medicine in sickle cell disease that binds… Read More


Sickle cell experts seek treatment advances at Norfleet Forum

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The world of sickle cell research paid quiet homage Friday to Memphis entrepreneur and civic leader Frank M. Norfleet. Instead of endowing a university research chair or a hospital wing, he left money when he died in 2012 to bring researchers here every year to discuss big issues in medicine. This year’s one-day Norfleet Forum… Read More


News Medical Life Sciences: CDC to fund sickle cell disease surveillance

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The program called the Sickle Cell Data Collection program or SCDC is at present functional in two states – California and Georgia. With the new funds coming in, nine states would be able to collect and send population based information on the health of persons living with sickle cell disease (SCD). According to the report… Read More


New study by local health expert could add treatment option for sickle cell patients

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Memphis has one of the highest populations of adult sickle cell patients in the United States. About 1,700 patients have the disease, according to Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare.Right now, there are only a few FDA-approved treatment options for sickle cell disease, with the most recent treatment approved last year by the federal agency. Dr. Kenneth… Read More


Millennials ‘pushing past the pain’ of sickle cell

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Sickle cell “warrior” Juveiane Richards lives with the inherited disease that he knows from experience can deliver episodes of pain known as pain crisis. Often, you can find him in the company of caregiver Ashton Davis at Carpenter’s House at 35 West Brooks Rd. Richards and Davis, a published author and college student, were chilling… Read More