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  World Sickle Cell Day 2025: What is Sickle Cell Anaemia? Doctor debunks myths

  Health | June 19, 2025 16:35 IST

  On World Sickle Cell Day 2025, doctors explain Sickle Cell Anemia, an inherited blood disorder causing abnormally shaped red blood cells. Experts debunk common myths, raising awareness about the condition's causes, symptoms, and management.

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  Sickle Cell Trait vs Sickle Cell Disease: Differences in symptoms, diagnosis and treatment

  Health | June 18, 2024 19:45 IST

  World Sickle Cell Day is a crucial step towards breaking the stigma and discrimination associated with this disease, promoting early detection and treatment. Thus, knowing the difference between sickle cell trait and sickle cell disease is also important.

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  Caught on CCTV: Doctor struck 18 times with sickle in Maharashtra hospital

  Maharashtra | February 26, 2024 13:09 IST

  A disturbing incident unfolded in Nashik, when Dr. Kailas Rathi, the director of a local hospital, was viciously assaulted over a monetary dispute. The assailant, identified as the husband of a former hospital employee, allegedly attacked Dr. Rathi with a sickle, leaving him in critical condition.

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  Maharashtra: Man held for killing cousin over monetary dispute

  Crime | August 12, 2019 15:33 IST

  A 25-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly killing his cousin brother over a monetary dispute in Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said on Monday.

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  Indore: 24-year-old woman dies as former classmate slashes her with sickle 40 times

  India | September 15, 2018 18:41 IST

  Supriya Jain, an accountant in a private organisation, succumbed Friday night while undergoing treatment at a nearby hospital, said MIG police station in charge Tahzeeb Qazi.  

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  Muzaffarnagar: rioters used sickles, sticks, countrymade pistols to attack others

  India | September 11, 2013 7:19 IST

  Muzaffarnagar: As the victims of communal violence narrate their harrowing tales at District Hospital here, nature of their injuries indicate that rioters mostly used household objects like sickles, heavy sticks and country-made pistols in the