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An in-depth look at two important advances in biomedical science, each treating a dangerous genetic disease.

This fall, the community celebrates a century and a half of its public high school, making OPRF older than Chicago’s “L” system, 13 of the 50 United States, and, surprisingly, the villages of Oak Park and River Forest.

Sickle cell disease is one of the most prevalent hemoglobinopathies around the world. Sickle cell anemia manifests due to a genetic alteration caused by substituting a single nucleotide in place of another nucleotide in the beta-globin gene. This mutation causes rigidity and sickling of the erythrocytes when the oxygen saturation falls in conditions like infection, dehydration, stress, etc. The distorted erythrocytes cause vaso-occlusion, tissue ischemia, and infarction. Cholelithiasis is known to be a frequent complication in cases of sickle cell anemia. It occurs because of chronic hemolysis...

Dr Laurence Sperling talks with Dr Kim Williams about preventive cardiology nutrition intervention as a key co-therapy for tackling dyslipidemia.

Alice K. Jacobs was awarded the James B. Herrick Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cardiology by the American Heart Association.