Sickle Cell News

Sickle-cell trait and more caused Miramar football player death: autopsy report

By theGrio

8:39 AM on 01/13/2012

MIAMI - The five-page report on 16-year-old Isaiah Laurencin said that hypertension, bronchitis and high temperatures were "co-morbid natural factors," the Sentinel reported...
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Ryan Clark sidelined by sickle cell trait: Steelers' safety becomes face of illness

By Dr. Tyeese Gaines

3:01 PM on 01/04/2012

theGRIO REPORT - Coaches benched Steelers safety Ryan Clark this week due to fear of the complications from sickle cell trait he faced last time he played in Denver, which included life-threatening illness...
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Ex-Tulsa player died of sickle cell complications

By theGrio

11:39 AM on 01/04/2012

TULSA, Okla. (AP) - The office revealed the new details about George Clinckscale's death Tuesday. A full autopsy report isn't expected for several weeks...
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Expert testifies UCF player died from sickle cell

By theGrio

9:49 AM on 06/20/2011

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - University of Central Florida football player Ereck Plancher died after a preseason practice from complications of sickle cell trait...
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iPad used for 11-year-old's sickle cell treatment

By theGrio

12:41 PM on 06/17/2010

VIDEO - The iPad is now part of the prescription for healing at the St. Louis Children's Hospital...
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Dr. Fleming lives with sickle cell disease and no boundaries

By theGrio

1:14 PM on 12/10/2009

VIDEO - Dr. Lester Fleming is learning to be a pilot --something he once thought would never be possible. Fleming was born with sickle cell disease, a red blood cell deficiency...
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Landlord gives tenant second lease on life

By theGrio

9:53 AM on 11/04/2009

VIDEO - Patients in need of an organ transplant never know where the needed organ might be found. In the case of one Chicago man, it came from his landlord...
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Teen's bone marrow transplant cures brother of sickle cell

By theGrio

8:48 AM on 09/04/2009

VIDEO - At two weeks old, Travis Washington was diagnosed with sickle cell disease. Since then, he spent much of his childhood in and out of hospitals, suffering from excruciating pain.
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Sickle cell testing for college athletes underway

By theGrio via AP

5:09 PM on 08/03/2009

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Thousands of families carry the gene that causes sickle cell disease and don't know it -- even though almost every newborn in the U.S. today is tested for what is called "sickle cell trait," and starting this summer more college athletes are getting tested, too.
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