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Researchers seek more sickle cell drug research
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- Kerry Dooley Young
BETHESDA, MD – While there are experimental treatments such as ...
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Antigen profiling may help prevent transfusion complications
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- Kerry Dooley Young
BETHESDA, MD. – Extended red cell antigen profiling before initial transfusion can help avoid complications in highly transfused populations.
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Primary care needs pile up for sickle cell patients
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- Kerry Dooley Young
BETHESDA, MD. – With people often surviving into middle age with SCD, physicians need to keep in mind the routine complications of aging in these...
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Sickle cell disease gene therapy seen advancing
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- Kerry Dooley Young
BETHESDA, MD. – NIH conference highlights experimental gene therapies for SCD and thalassemia, with further updates on this work slated for ASH’s...
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App tied to reducing insomnia, depression in adults
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- Kerry Dooley Young
ROCKVILLE, MD. – ‘Sleepio,’ an online intervention, could address the shortage of clinicians equipped to use CBT to treat insomnia.
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Address physical health risks of people with SMI
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- Kerry Dooley Young
ROCKVILLE, MD. – Strategies still are needed to fight obesity, diabetes, smoking, and sedentary behavior.
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For people with SMI, disclosure still challenging
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- Kerry Dooley Young
ROCKVILLE, MD. – Researchers looked at how people decide to tell employers and coworkers about diagnoses of serious mental illness.
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NIMH urged to shift priorities toward children’s mental health
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- Kerry Dooley Young
ROCKVILLE, MD. – Dr. Kimberly E. Hoagwood says the 20% of children with mental health problems ‘cannot be ignored.’
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Groups release guidelines for CAR T treatment in children
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- Kerry Dooley Young
Some of the tools used to detect toxicity that are used in older patients don’t work well in children.
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Judge seeks replication of efforts to support people with SMI
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- Kerry Dooley Young
Florida judge is seeking to end what he sees as an overuse of incarceration.