Sickle Cell Anemia and related blood diseases: a Global Responsibility- By The HONOURABLE JIM KARYGIANNIS, M.P., Scarborough-AgincourtJ

Just over one hundred years ago, a Chicago physician identified Sickle Cell. In 1910, Dr. James Herrick, a physician at Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago first described sickle-shaped cells in a severe case of anemia as ‘peculiar, elongated and sickle shaped red blood corpuscles’. This was the first documented and recorded case of sickle cell in Western medicine.

Since then, physicians, scientists and researchers have been striving to diagnose and effectively treat sickle cell anemia. While significant medical achievements have been made – there are still challenges to be met.

Sickle cell anemia is an inherited blood disorder. Sickle cell anemia is not contagious – you can’t catch it from someone else or pass it to another person like a cold or an …

Publisher’s Note – May 2008
Meet a new friend, HK.

I know that HK is a name that sounds like someone you will want to get to know. And by its look, HK is friendly. HK stands for good health, good living, wellness lifestyle and diverse information about health issues.
As publisher of Healthy Knowledge, I am pleased to introduce HK to you.
HK is not the first health and lifestyle magazine that you would have seen or read. Though HK is unique in its own way, and it is our hope that it will be an essential resource for you.

HK is relevant. Our health issues may largely be the same as in other ethnic groups, but we will focus our information on the different diseases and treatments pertaining to the Black community. We hope to shatter myths, address problems and confront tough questions. …

by Brittany Pepper

The food security emergency in East Africa and the famine in Somalia have once again thrust the plights of Africa into the international spotlight. As always when an emergency arises, we are bombarded with calls for humanitarian aid and images of incomprehensible suffering. As they always do, the images will fade from our television screens in only a short time, but the impacts of these crises will be felt well into the future for people living in East Africa. After the cameras leave and the river of aid slows to a trickle, the devastation and crisis will remain. This devastation will be compounded by the impacts of the food crisis …