My Daily Scribbles

South Texas blood center urges help combating sickle cell SAN ANTONIO – Sickle cell anemia affects mostly blacks, but in rare cases people of other races fall victim, too. Since Black History Month is underway, the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center has set out to encourage blacks to donate more blood. Presently, only 3 percent of [...]

Also, why does a fever accompany the sickle cell disease? Sorry, the title of the question should be What’s the relationship between sickle cell disease and gallstones. thanks.

Internal Medicine Report: A new prospective study of pain in adults with sickle cell disease finds that daily pain is far more prevalent and severe than previous large studies have indicated. Authors of the study gave diaries to 232 sickle cell disease patients to record daily pain and indicate whether they used hospital emergency or [...]

This might be a stupid question but here it is. I wanted to know if you kept sucking out sickle cell blood and pumping in healthy blood would you be healthy again?