September 30, 2024

At the Bedside: Houston attorney shares her story of living with sickle cell anemia

From the outside, there is nothing about successful, busy attorney Brenda Adimora that hints at a disease she has fought all of her life. She maintains an active practice as a labor and employment attorney and was chair of the…


September 6, 2024

Sickle Cell Disease Symposium set for Sept. 27

The UTHealth Houston Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences will host the Sickle Cell Disease Symposium from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., Sept. 27, at the Memorial Hermann Hospital – Texas Medical Center. The Sickle Cell Disease Symposium brings experts…


February 15, 2024

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…


September 25, 2023

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…