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Sickle Cell Anemia
- From the National Institutes of Health
- Overviews
- Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention/Screening
- Disease Management
- Specific Conditions
- Clinical Trials
- Genetics
- Research
- Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Directories
- Organizations
- Law and Policy
- Children
- Teenagers
- Other Languages
From the National Institutes of Health
- From the National Institutes of Health
- Sickle Cell Anemia (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Overviews
- Overviews
- Frequently Asked Questions (Sickle Cell Disease Association of America)
- Sickle Cell Anemia (Nemours Foundation)
- Sickle Cell Disease (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
- What Is Sickle Cell Disease? (Sickle Cell Disease Association of America)
- What Is Sickle Cell Disease? (Dolan DNA Learning Center)
Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Complete Blood Count (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
Treatment
- Treatment
- Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation (Leukemia & Lymphoma Society)
Also available in: Spanish - Bone Marrow and Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplant (Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Grady Health System)
Prevention/Screening
- Prevention/Screening
- Genetic Counseling (Nemours Foundation)
- Newborn Screening Tests (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
Also available in: Spanish - Sickle Cell Test (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
Disease Management
- Disease Management
- Pain Assessment and Pain Management in Sickle Cell Disease (Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Grady Health System)
- Sickle Cell Disease: Practical Tips for Preventing a Sickle Cell Crisis (American Academy of Family Physicians)
Also available in: Spanish
Specific Conditions
- Specific Conditions
- High Blood Pressure in the Lungs a Major Risk for Death in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease (National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center)
- Who Is Affected? (Sickle Cell Disease Association of America)
Clinical Trials
- Clinical Trials
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Anemia, Sickle Cell (National Institutes of Health)
Genetics
- Genetics
- Genetics Home Reference: Sickle cell anemia (National Library of Medicine)
- Child with Sickle Cell Disease-A Teaching Manual: Genetics (Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Grady Health System)
- Genes and Disease: Sickle Cell Anemia (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
- How Do People Get Sickle Cell Disease? (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital)
- Learning about Sickle Cell Disease (National Human Genome Research Institute)
Research
- Research
- Exposure to Tobacco Smoke Harms Children with Sickle Cell Disease (Nemours Foundation)
- Hydroxyurea Therapy Improves Survival in Most Severely Affected Sickle Cell Patients (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
- Sickle Cell Research for Treatment and Cure (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - Large PDF file
Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Glossary (Sickle Cell Disease Association of America)
Directories
- Directories
- Sickle Cell Clinics, Contacts, and Resources (Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Grady Health System)
Organizations
- Organizations
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- Save Babies Through Screening Foundation
- Sickle Cell Disease Association of America
- Sickle Cell Information Center (Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Grady Health System)
Law and Policy
- Law and Policy
- Sickle Cell Disease: Americans with Disabilities Act (Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Grady Health System)
Children
- Children
- Do You Know about Sickle Cell Anemia? (Nemours Foundation)
- Truth about Transfusions (Nemours Foundation)
Other Languages
- Other Languages
- Cartilha de Anemia Falciforme (Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Grady Health System) - In Portuguese