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…
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…
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…
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…