Three University High students have started the Caring Cells Project to raise awareness and provide care packages for ...

Sickle cell disease is a lifelong condition that can cause severe pain episodes and frequent emergency department visits.

J. Snow and Marlon Wayans Q&A for doc on sickle cell "You Look Fine" ...

A Black female doctor when that was rare, she developed a diagnostic test for the disease that is still a standard tool, as well as treatment guidelines. By Sam Roberts Dr. Angella D. Ferguson, a ...

Recent therapies like hydroxyurea (Droxia, Bristol-Myers Squibb), the first FDA-approved drug for SCD in 1994, increase fetal hemoglobin (HbF), which, through unknown pathways, improves SCD symptoms ...

Sickle cell anemia (HbSS) is the homozygous dominant variant and the most common and severe form of the disease. Whereas patients who only inherited one gene encoding for abnormal HbS and a different ...

BOWLING GREEN, KY.- According to the CDC, about 90,000 non-Hispanic Black or African American people in the United States have sickle cell disease. Outside the U.S., the condition is more common in ...

Over 6.83 crore individuals in tribal regions have been screened for sickle cell anemia, with 2.38 lakh affected and 19.32 lakh carriers identified. The National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination ...

James Griffin, diagnosed with sickle cell at age two, shares how blood donations enabled his transformation from frequent hospital patient to medical professional and advocate.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals and bluebird bio have entered into an agreement with CMS to participate in a new Medicaid payment model for gene-based sickle cell anemia treatments, the agency announced ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — WNCT’s Erin Jenkins sits down with a sickle cell disease survivor and a doctor to learn more about ...

FARRELL, Pa. (WKBN)- Farrell High School students are raising awareness for an important cause–donating blood for sickle cell anemia. The disease is a genetic mutation that can cause blockages in ...