Without the Sickle Cell Data Collection program, we will see greater burdens and higher costs for both families and health care systems.

New gene therapy improves the life of 18-year-old with Sickle Cell Disease which affects 5,000 New Jersey residents living with the condition.

The Saddle Up for Sickle Cell Foundation is holding its annual Ride with a Purpose event on Friday and Saturday, April 18-19.

A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say. They credit state-of-the-art genetic treatment. Medical history made at Cohen Children's Medical ...

Discover effective strategies to minimize sickle cell pain crises and avoid hospitalizations. Leading hematologists share practical approaches for better disease management.

Learn about sickle cell disease, its impact on the Black community, and the importance of genetic counseling. Know your status.

Because sickle cell disease isn’t as progressive a disease as others that have gene therapies available, there isn’t as much urgency to start on these expensive therapies, said Kevin Niehoff ...

Black people are at a much higher risk of being affected by sickle cell — and the effects can be fatal. More research is needed to combat it ...

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 ...

A man and woman, both with sickle cell, share what their experience was like finding love, and what prospective partners need to know.

The modern study of sickle cell disease began with a descendant of that African diaspora after an unusual set of circumstances allowed him to bypass medicine’s racial segregation.

Life expectancy for people with sickle cell in the U.S. has increased to about 50 years, but some people with the disease still face stigma and other barriers in health care These sickle cell ...