Mum makes emotional appeal for more black donors
The mum of a toddler who needs regular blood transfusions to stay alive is urging more black people to donate
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Sickle cell
Sickle cell anaemia patients denied benefits due to ‘invisible’ illness, MPs warn
Most patients do not seem unwell when they are assessed as symptoms are triggered by stress or a sudden change in
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Severing the ignorance of sickle cell disease by Kehinde Salami
Suggestion: Severing the ignorance of sickle cell disease Sickle Cell Disease If I were to ask the wider population for
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Sickle cell: Call The Midwife shines spotlight on disease
Viewers and people with sickle cell disease have praised TV show Call The Midwife for its storyline portraying the condition.
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Call for black blood and organ donors to join the growing numbers saving lives in their community
This Black History Month NHS Blood and Transplant is urging black people to join the rising numbers saving lives in
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Growing rates of sickle cell disease trigger urgent need for more black donors to give blood
NHS Blood and Transplant launches new campaign #ImThere (I’m there) to inspire new donors to come forward, register and donate
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