For columnist Mary Shaniqua, who tracks her health closely, not being able to discern the causes of a sickle cell crisis is ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - On Tuesday, the American Red Cross launched a fight against Sickle Cell Anemia by hosting blood drives. High schools and colleges across the metro joined the effort to reac ...

Without the Sickle Cell Data Collection program, we will see greater burdens and higher costs for both families and health ...

Hemoglobin SS, also called sickle cell anemia, is usually the most severe type of this disorder. A blood test can check for the defective form of hemoglobin found in people with sickle cell disease.

For 21 years, Sebastien Beauzile lived with the chronic pain of sickle cell anemia. Now, thanks to a groundbreaking genetic treatment, he is the first person in New York to be cured of the disease.

The most severe form of sickle cell disease, sickle cell anemia causes red blood cells to be sickle- or crescent-shaped, rather than a disc. That distortion causes the cells to get stuck in the ...

(WRIC) — During Sickle Cell Awareness Month ... which sees more than 1,200 sickle anemia patients from around Virginia. The Red Cross Virginia Region Medical Director Courtney Lawrence said ...

Some doctors told him he'd live with the disease forever, but Khaled Alsheebani never stopped believing treatments would advance one day.

Despite some recent setbacks to its sickle cell disease (SCD) pipeline, Pfizer is plowing ahead in improving education around ...

Sickle cell anemia refers to a group of genetic blood disorders that affect a person’s levels of hemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that transports oxygen. Sickle cell anemia causes a ...