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Coronation Street’s Victoria Ekanoye talks about sickle cell anaemia

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‘I was in a lot of pain but didn’t tell my mum’: Coronation Street’s Victoria Ekanoye, 37, details hiding her sickle cell anaemia symptoms The actress, 37, who was diagnosed in her twenties having previously shown few symptoms, she spent many years masking the painful episodes from her mum  Speaking to BBC Sounds The Sista … Read more

First patient to use CRISPR to treat sickle cell disease says the technology is alleviating symptoms

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A mother-of-four, who is the first American patient to have her genes edited with the controversial CRISPR technology to treat her sickle cell disease, says the technology is working. Victoria Gray, 34, of Forest, Mississippi, has suffered from the debilitating blood disorder her entire life.   She was in so much pain at one point that she … Read more