They Lost Three Daughters to Sickle Cell. Can They Save a Fourth?
The New York Times
About 150,000 babies are born each year in Nigeria with sickle cell, a deadly disease. Tens of thousands of them die annually before their fifth birthdays.
KANO, Nigeria — The hip pain from sickle cell disease was so intense that Sadiya Haruna, age 9, could not walk, so she rode on her sister’s back. She settled among dozens of children and mothers on a concrete bench outside a clinic here in northern Nigeria.
Her anguished mother, Mariya Haruna, sitting beside her, had already seen sickle cell squeeze the life out of three of her daughters. She was frightened that Sadiya was hurtling toward the same fate.
Sadiya’s mother was determined to ease her daughter’s bouts of agony, caused by crescent-shaped — or sickled — blood cells clogging her vessels. And she hoped the staff of the pediatric sickle cell unit at Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital in Kano would have answers. As a public hospital, it is the only place many families can afford to take their children to get treated for a disease that can cause severe pain, organ failure and strokes.
Some women are stocking up on the medications, saying they are concerned that the new administration could take steps to restrict access.
As the glaciers of South America retreat, the supply of freshwater is dwindling and its quality is getting worse.
It’s something turkey often isn’t — undeniably juicy and a guaranteed crowd-pleaser.
A rise in the disease in younger people was not followed by an increase in deaths, a study found, and might be a sign of overdiagnosis.
The Homotherium cub was preserved in Siberian permafrost with its dark fur and flesh intact.
A small study found ChatGPT outdid human physicians when assessing medical case histories, even when those doctors were using a chatbot.
For a century, exoplanet hunters have “discovered” planets around a nearby star, only to retract the claims. But the latest find is for real.
The unidentified patient had recently returned from Africa, where the virus has caused a deadly epidemic, health officials said.
The event produces some of the year’s fastest meteors, although the nearly full moon may make them challenging to spot.
Mr. Musk dug into his companies’ budgets, preferring to cut too much rather than too little and to deal with the fallout later. Under Donald Trump, he is set to apply those tactics to the U.S. government.
Behind the scenes at a Chicago zoo, chimpanzees who spent years entertaining humans are learning to befriend their own kind.