West Indian Medical Journal. Panel urges newborn sickle cell screening. Consensus Development Conference on Newborn Screening for Sickle Cell Disease and Other Hemoglobinopathies Newborn screening for sickle cell disease and other hemoglobinopathies. Sickle cell anemia and other hemoglobinopathies represent a major health problem in the United States. In April 1987 several federal agencies sponsored a National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference to discuss the issues involved in diagnosing and treating some of the major hemoglobinopathies in infants.
Panel favors sickle cell tests for all babies.
African-American Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics. Paper presented at a conference funded by the Kaiser Family Foundation. New England Journal of Medicine. Bone marrow transplantation has been shown to cure sickle cell disease, but it carries a 15 percent mortality risk. To determine whether parents would accept this risk to cure their children of sickle cell disease, we interviewed parents of children with sickle cell disease who were being followed in a university hospital clinic.