A Bahrain study shows CT scans to check for blood clots in lung blood vessels increased significantly in people with sickle ...

Columnist Mary Shaniqua offers examples of some symptoms of sickle cell that are lesser known than fatigue and a ...

Sickle cell has been overlooked for far too long. Fortunately, there are new breakthroughs in sickle cell treatment that you ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of genetic disorders that result in red blood cells, which carry oxygen through the body, having an abnormal, sickle-like shape. This can result in anemia, ...

Unlike sickle cell trait, SCD leads to chronic health complications due to the abnormal shape of red blood cells. Genetics: Individuals with SCT inherit one normal haemoglobin gene (HbA ...

Sickle cell disease is a genetic blood disorder that mostly impacts Black and Hispanic Americans. It makes a patient’s blood cells change from the typical doughnut shape into the shape of a ...

editing them to produce blood cells that do not form the characteristic sickle shape seen in SCD, and reinfusing them into the body. It will be an option for people who might otherwise be treated ...

Martin Mwita, 20, is the first patient in St. Louis and among the first across the country to receive a new gene therapy for ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces sickle-cell treatment program in Charleston while assuring SC Sen. Tim Scott that federal ...