Many people have lived with sickle cell all their life. They’ve never known anything else. They have the most severe form of sickle cell disease. While not all, many have been told they won’t survive past a certain age. They won’t live to see, for example, their 15th birthday. Sickle cell was like a death... Read More

August 20, 2013

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Splendid news: Sickle cell anaemia patients can change their genotype – Hematologist

by ‘Jola Sotubo Relief might be in sight for sufferers of the dreaded sickle cell disease and for many people whose options for marriage are restricted due to incompatible genotypes. A Benin based expert has stated that people living with sickle cell anaemia can now change their genotypes and be free of the disease. Dr.... Read More

AA, Bazuaye Nosakhare, Consultant Hematologist, genotype, Sickle cell anaemia, SS, Temitayo Awosika

January 15, 2013

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8 arrested over British girl’s murder in Jamaica as police report suggests she was executed in feud over lottery scam

Eight suspects were last night being ‘intensively interrogated’ by police over the murder of British schoolgirl Imani Green in Jamaica. The island’s authorities said they are confident of solving the killing of the eight-year-old, who is believed to have been an innocent victim of gangsters fighting a turf war over an illegal lottery scam. Imani,... Read More

Imani Green, Jamaica, Sickle cell anaemia