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 ...

Sickle cell trait (SCT) is passed down through families. If your parents have the trait, you may get sick from the disease (SCD), or you may only “carry” the gene (SCT) and never have symptoms.

Sickle cell community scrambles to find safe plan after a drug is pulled from the market. Pfizer’s abrupt decision left many feeling they had no guidance on what to do next.

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.

In this report, VINCENT KURAUN explores the groundbreaking strategies for managing sickle cell disease, with a particular focus on crisis prevention and treatment. IN the quiet corners of homes ...

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 ...

The underutilization of disease-modifying therapy by people with sickle cell disease is “persistent and alarming,” according to an analysis of real-world data.The findings, presented in ...

Sickle cell disease is a genetic blood disorder caused by a single mutation in both copies of a gene coding for beta-globin. Beta-globin forms half of the oxygen-carrying molecule hemoglobin. This ...

1st New Jersey patient receives groundbreaking treatment for sickle cell disease 02:27. For the first time in his life, a young New Jersey man is pain-free thanks to a new gene treatment working ...

In a 54-person trial, researchers found that around 90 percent of sickle cell patients treated with this technique who received transplants from half-matched donors went at least two years without ...

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.