Aaron Scott, of Fayetteville, is the first in North Carolina to receive a new FDA-approved therapy which uses the patient's own cells to relieve the pain of sickle cell disease.

Discover effective strategies to minimize sickle cell pain crises and avoid hospitalizations. Leading hematologists share ...

One of the major contributors to complications in SCD is oxidative stress, a condition where the body’s antioxidant defense ...

Sickle Cell Disease is a complex and debilitating genetic blood disorder that primarily affects people of African, ...

New research from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has found that white blood cells which 'remember' past ...

Esther Nkemakolam runs her fingers through kinetic sand and sings a “Moana” song as UPMC Children’s Hospital nurse Taylor ...

When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School in the mid-2000s, one of his first clinical encounters ...

The American Red Cross hosted its third annual Sickle Cell Awareness Event and Blood Drive at Rochester's School Without ...

Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) can potentially cure sickle cell disease, an inherited and painful blood disorder, but ...

A memorandum of understanding has been signed to implement a wide-ranging sickle cell anaemia screening project in Jharkhand. This collaboration aims to establish a testing hub to facilitate ...

Learn how CASGEVY, the first NHS-approved CRISPR gene therapy, treats sickle cell disease through a revolutionary genetic ...

Hundreds of patients in Quebec live with sickle cell anemia, a common hereditary blood disease that can be fatal.