September is National Sickle Cell Anemia Awareness Month.Sickle cell anemia is a disease that is inherited genetically through a trait passed to a child by both parents, affecting the blood cells ...

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When sickle cells get stuck in the arteries that feed your brain, they can block blood flow and cause a stroke. Transfusions can lower the odds of another stroke by about 90%. If you think you're ...

Pain Crises. Pain is an unpredictable symptom of sickle cell disease. The deformed blood cells can get stuck in and block your blood vessels. When this happens, oxygen-rich blood cannot reach key ...

Sickle cell patient Dominique Goodson, 38 and pregnant with her first child, said she would like to get a gene therapy a year or so after she gives birth in December, but she needs to make sure ...

In a region that has the world’s highest rates of sickle cell, Lea Kilenga and her nonprofit are helping fellow Kenyans get crucial treatment and battling the stigma surrounding the disease.

Evelyn Quartey carries the sickle cell trait, as did her ex-husband and first son, Emmanuel, who passed away from Sickle Cell Disease in 2009 at 7. Her younger son Gerald had been diagnosed with ...

Long Island man cured of sickle cell anemia, making New York state history 02:11. A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say.