Her son, McKinley has sickle cell disease. "Their blood cells are not round, like you and I, but they are shaped like a ...

Sites in Los Angeles and near San Francisco California are enrolling people with severe SCD for a trial to test a gene ...

Three research articles published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report found significant rises in infections of ...

Columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye addresses some of the myths about blood transfusion and explains why it's important in managing ...

CRISPR gene therapy trial for sickle cell disease begins, offering hope for a potential cure by targeting the genetic root of ...

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland is enrolling patients in an innovative clinical trial that seeks to cure sickle cell ...

Experts are now urging the inclusion of sickle cell disease in the global health agenda to address ... with 2021 recording 34,400 cause-specific deaths and a total mortality burden of 376,000, ...

In a scathing indictment of custodial violence, a Bengaluru court recently convicted four police personnel for causing the ...

Sickle cell anemia requires ongoing ... and can help reduce pain crises. Hydroxyurea causes the body to produce fetal hemoglobin, a type of hemoglobin that is normally produced only before ...

Sickle cell trait is not an illness, and it isn’t the same as sickle cell disease, or sickle cell anemia. But having ... However, the following situations may cause problems for some people ...

Sickle Cell disease is an autosomal recessive disorder that causes anemia, joint pain, a swollen spleen, and frequent, severe infections. It illustrates balanced polymorphism because carriers are ...