{"id":1169,"date":"2025-01-03T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whedafrica.org\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2025-01-13T16:41:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:41:52","slug":"ugs-prof-yvonne-dei-adomakoh-presents-paper-at-ash-2024-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whedafrica.org\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/ugs-prof-yvonne-dei-adomakoh-presents-paper-at-ash-2024-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"UG\u2019s Prof. Yvonne Dei-Adomakoh Presents Paper at ASH 2024 Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the University continues to make great strides in its quest to undertake impactful research, a research paper by Prof. Yvonne&nbsp;<a>Dei-Adomakoh<\/a>, the Acting Dean of the University of Ghana Medical School, has been accepted for a presentation at the 66th American Society of Hematology\u2019s (ASH) Annual Conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Dei-Adomakoh\u2019s study,<em>&nbsp;Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Randomized Controlled Trial of Hydroxyurea for HbSC: Results of the Prospective Identification of Variables as Outcomes for Treatment (PIVOT) Trial,&nbsp;<\/em>revealed that Hydroxyurea shows benefits for managing hemoglobin SC (HbSC), a form of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). Hydroxyurea is a daily oral medication that can reduce&nbsp;<a>SCD&nbsp;<\/a>symptoms by helping red blood cells maintain a healthy shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHydroxyurea comes at a low cost; in Ghana it\u2019s on our national health insurance,\u201d said Prof. Dei-Adomakoh. \u201cIf we see safety and efficacy in a multicenter phase III trial, I think that countries should push for it to be on their national health insurance and be readily available at very low cost to patients with SCD.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ASH is the world&#8217;s largest professional society with more than 18,000 clinicians and scientists&nbsp; members from nearly 100 countries who are working to conquer blood diseases. Its mission is to foster high-quality, equitable care, transformative research, and innovative education to improve the lives of patients with blood and bone marrow disorders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to Prof. Dei-Adomakoh on achieving this feat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hematology.org\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2024\/researchers-report-new-opportunities-to-improve-quality-of-life\">https:\/\/www.hematology.org\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2024\/researchers-report-new-opportunities-to-improve-quality-of-life<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the University continues to make great strides in its quest to undertake impactful research, a research paper by Prof. Yvonne&nbsp;Dei-Adomakoh, the Acting Dean of the University of Ghana Medical School, has been accepted for a presentation at the 66th American Society of Hematology\u2019s (ASH) Annual Conference. Prof. Dei-Adomakoh\u2019s study,&nbsp;Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Randomized Controlled Trial of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,6,10,8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa-education-events","category-africa-education-news","category-fau-members-news","category-fau-partners-news-4-edu","category-global-education-news","category-university-research-dev-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whedafrica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whedafrica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whedafrica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whedafrica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whedafrica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whedafrica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/whedafrica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whedafrica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whedafrica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whedafrica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whedafrica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}