News tagged with sickle cell anaemia

Children with sickle cell suffer more severe malaria

The sickle cell trait is known for its protective effect against developing malaria. But new research warns that children with sickle cell anaemia are more likely to die from severe malaria.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Sep 06, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sickle cell study boosts call for improved childhood immunization programs in Africa

Children in Africa with sickle cell anaemia are dying unnecessarily from bacterial infections, suggests the largest study of its kind, funded by the Wellcome Trust. The results are published today in the journal ...

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created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Electronic medicine, without borders?

Disease knows no borders and now researchers in Europe and the Mediterranean shoreline are using electronic infrastructures (e-Infrastructures) to coordinate and cooperate internationally.

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The importance of gene regulation for common human disease

A new study published in Nature Genetics on Sunday 16 September 2007 show that common, complex diseases are more likely to be due to genetic variation in regions that control activity of genes, rather than in the regions that s ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 16, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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