{"id":196697,"date":"2024-09-27T07:23:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T12:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/nhs-rolls-out-life-changing-treatment-for-thousands-with-sickle-cell-disease"},"modified":"2024-09-27T07:23:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T12:23:09","slug":"nhs-rolls-out-life-changing-treatment-for-thousands-with-sickle-cell-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/nhs-rolls-out-life-changing-treatment-for-thousands-with-sickle-cell-disease","title":{"rendered":"NHS rolls out \u2018life-changing\u2019 treatment for thousands with sickle cell disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nhs-rolls-out-life-changing-treatment-for-thousands-with-sickle-cell-disease.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up to 4,000 people with sickle cell disease in England could benefit from the drug Voxelotor if recommended by their clinician, which will offer an additional treatment option from today, following its approval by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).<\/p>\n<p>Voxelotor (Oxbryta\u00ae)\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We\u2019ve put some small files called cookies on your device to make our site work.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d also like to use analytics cookies. These send information about how our site is used to a service called Google Analytics. We use this information to improve our site.<\/p>\n<p>Let us know if this is OK. We\u2019ll use a cookie to save your choice. You can <a id=\"nhsuk-cookie-banner__link\" tabindex=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.england.nhs.uk\/privacy-policy\/\">read more about our cookies<\/a> before you choose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 4,000 people with sickle cell disease in England could benefit from the drug Voxelotor if recommended by their clinician, which will offer an additional treatment option from today, following its approval by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Voxelotor (Oxbryta\u00ae)\u2026 We\u2019ve put some small files called cookies on your device [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}