50 Years Ago Health & Medicine

50 years ago, urea showed promise as a sickle-cell treatment

Excerpt from the December 19, 1970 issue of Science News

a microscopic image showing the sickle curved shape of blood cells

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Keith Chambers/Scooter Project/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

By Bethany Brookshire

- More than 2 years ago

cover of December 19, 1970 issue of Science News

Urea normalizes cells – Science News, December 19, 1970

Intravenous infusions of urea now appear to promise successful treatment of sickle-cell patients.…