Governor Anyang’ Nyong’o has said he is working on modalities of procuring the Sickle Scan for county hospitals. The kit rapidly detects whether individuals have the sickle cell trait or ...

Staff lined the hallway, cheering and waving noisemakers. He had just become the first patient to receive a gene therapy for sickle cell since it was approved — a therapy that is expected to ...

He notes they have been doing sensitization within community units, spreading the word about the screening, which is done through the sickle scan. Olik asserts that prevention involves people know ...

a scan should be undertaken but this did not take place until after the weekend, three days later. There was an "ongoing fixation on the perception that Victoria was having a painful sickle cell ...