Individuals with sickle cell disease—a chronic illness where misshapen, sticky blood cells clump together, reducing oxygen ...

A new study has found older-looking brains in adults with sickle cell disease, helping to explain the cognitive challenges experienced by such individuals. A brain image from a healthy individual ...

In The Pitt Season 1 Episode 2, sickle cell disease (SCD) is the main focus, as it brings to light the tough medical and racial challenges that people with this illness have to face every day.

Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine are providing medication and other aid to fight sickle cell disease ...

Sickle Cell Disease is a genetic blood disorder that affects millions worldwide, primarily individuals of African, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and Indian ancestry. The condition is ...

Health workers in the eastern district of Budaka in Bukedi Sub-region have registered a decline in cases of sickle cell disease that had deeply affected families and communities in the district.

Since two groundbreaking treatments were approved in late 2023, only a handful of patients have been able to access the ...

However, carriers can have children who inherit sickle cell disease and may exhibit symptoms. Therefore, unless you conduct DNA paternity tests that confirm the child is not yours, the fact that ...

In the FOX8 House Call, we’re talking about Sickle Cell Disease. It’s an inherited red blood cell disorder, and it affects ...

The new gene therapies for sickle cell disease—including the gene-editing treatment Casgevy, based on research at Boston Children's Hospital—have been game-changing for the patients who have ...

But for a brief moment on a recent December morning, Wedam, 19, who has sickle cell disease, allowed himself to believe what his doctors had been telling him for months: This visit could be the ...

Rigel Pharmaceuticals has enrolled the first subject in a Phase I trial of its oral spleen tyrosine kinase (SYK) inhibitor, fostamatinib, to treat sickle cell disease (SCD). The trial aims to assess ...