Blueprint for Action – Report Release Webinar Addressing Sickle Cell Disease through a Strategic Plan How are we addressing sickle cell disease? On September 10, 2020, from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET, join the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for a webinar. They are releasing a new report on SCD in the […]
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Register here for the new Mental Health Initiative, a free benefit provided by the Sickle Cell Warriors, Inc., community. The program details are below. This program is for warriors, by warriors, to warriors and funded with donations from the SCW community.
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To best serve you during this trying year, Sickle Cell Warriors, Inc. has developed a short study. Data received will be used to guide program development and education. This falls under our mission objectives of Research, Advocacy & Education.
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Michael Greger M.D. FACLM June 17th, 2020 Volume 50Cov What can we learn from other countries and the 1918 pandemic to slow COVID-19? I’ve talked about where the COVID-19 coronavirus came from, and how we might prevent such emergences from animals in the future, but now that it’s spreading human-to-human, what can we do about it? Social
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Knowledge and Confidence to Tackle SCD Sickle Cell Disease is well known for the pain that it causes patients, parents, and caregivers. What isn’t widely researched is the emotional stress that families go through. Emotional stress is due to the unpredictable episodes of pain, hospitalizations, risk of death, and more. Treatment options are few, and
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Knowledge and Confidence to Tackle SCD Sickle Cell Disease is well known for the pain that it causes. What isn’t widely researched is the emotional stress that families go through due to the unpredictable episodes of pain, hospitalizations, risk of death, and more. Treatment options are few, and curative therapies like bone marrow transplants and
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Doctors and nurses, even our friends and family often see us as “the sickler” Hard Global Launch September 2019 . We will have a story featured every day (or several features every week) on the website and on all our social media. #SCWLiveBig
Disability and Debt A sobering reality: Roughly one out of four healthy American workers in his or her 20s will become disabled before he or she reaches retirement age, according to the Social Security Administration. Dealing with a life-altering disability can be complicated enough but there are other considerations, particularly where income is concerned. For
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