What You Need To Know About Sickle Cell Disease

June 19th was officially designated as World Sickle Cell Awareness Day. The international awareness day is observed annually with the goal to increase public knowledge and an understanding of sickle cell disease, and the challenges experienced by patients and their families and caregivers. Here is some basic information about this complicated condition.

What Is Sickle Cell Disease?

Sickle-cell disease (SCD) is an inherited blood disorder. Those who have this inherited one sickle cell gene from one parent and another SCD gene from the other parent. Because it is inherited, SCD is not contagious, you cannot catch it from being around a person …read more