UTHealth Houston opens recruitment in RISE-UP clinical drug trial for people with sickle cell anemia
A medication that appeared to stabilize the function and shape of red blood cells in an earlier study for patients with sickle cell disease is now part of a Phase III clinical trial that is open for enrollment at UTHealth…
At the Bedside: Nurse with sickle cell disease joins clinical drug trial and finds energy she’s never had before
The day that Dorcas Osho and her parents moved to the United States, just one day after her fifth birthday, she began screaming in pain. Her parents scrambled to help their daughter and rushed her to a children’s hospital, where…
New CLL meds: Improved survival rates, 1990-2018
Binsah George, MD, was quoted in an MDEdge article about how medications to treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia are improving the survival rate of patients.
Mother of two with sickle cell disease feels reenergized while participating in trial at UT Physicians Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center
Kisha McClintock always knew she had a genetic predisposition for sickle cell disease, but it wasn’t until a cold night in December 2013 that the then 33-year-old woke from her sleep with severe pain in her left knee, sending McClintock…