Let’s start with one unambiguous fact: More children are diagnosed with autism today than in the early 1990s. According to a sweeping 2000 analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a ...

This article, the first of four in a series on sickle cell disease and beta thalassaemia, outlines their genetic inheritance, pathophysiology, clinical manifestation and complications. Other articles ...

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 ...

A 30-year-old New Jersey woman was charged with two felonies after police said she lied about having sickle cell anemia and refused to pay for over $560,000 in treatment from a hospital in ...

For the first time in his life, a young New Jersey man is pain-free thanks to a new gene treatment working to cure patients of sickle cell disease. Gerald Quartey, 18, is the first patient in the ...

Individuals with both sickle cell disease (SCD) and sickle cell trait are at higher risk than others of developing renal medullary cancer (RMC), the rarest and deadliest subtype of kidney cancer.

marking a national breakthrough in stigma research related to sickle cell disease, said the JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research (JSS AHER), Mysuru. “It (the study) is a milestone in ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pennsylvania (WGAL) — A New Jersey woman stole $560,000 in hospital treatments by pretending she had sickle cell anemia, according to the Lancaster County district attorney.

Vertex Pharma's £1.65 million ($2.05 million) gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease (SCD), Casgevy, has been given the green light for use by the NHS in England under a managed access ...

People with sickle cell disease often live with severe episodes of pain from vaso-occlusive crises and other complications that can significantly impact both quality of life and life expectancy. There ...