Symptoms can include: Anemia. Sickle cells are ... than their friends. Sickle cell disease is caused by a problem in the hemoglobin-beta gene found on chromosome 11. The defect forms abnormal ...

Low hemoglobin is common in people with SCD and can cause anemia. Sickle cell anemia is a form of SCD ... SCD are typically in the range of 6–11 grams per deciliter (g/dL), whereas they are ...

A gene therapy recently approved by the FDA to treat patients with Sickle Cell Anemia is now being administered in St. Louis.

Sickle cell thalassemia occurs when you inherit both a sickle cell gene mutation and a thalassemia gene mutation. Symptoms are similar to other types of sickle cell disease but can vary depending ...

Medical advances are changing some of the hallmark physical symptoms of sickle cell disease, columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye ...

For 21 years, Sebastien Beauzile lived with the chronic pain of sickle cell anemia. Now, thanks to a groundbreaking genetic treatment, he is the first person in New York to be cured of the disease.

A Long Island hospital has said that it has successfully eliminated sickle cell disease from Sebastien Beauzile, a 21-year-old from Laurelton, using the groundbreaking Lyfgenia gene therapy.

It actually was the day he began a new groundbreaking treatment that cured him of sickle cell anemia. In his own words, “It’s really like a new birthday. I feel like a new man.” But it wasn ...

"If you have sickle cell anemia and you're prone to crisis, you probably have an extremely high pain threshold. "You also understand that because you are prone to crisis, when you're in pain you ...

But many teens and adults have long-term pain. Everyone is different. Some types of the disorder, like sickle cell anemia (also called hemoglobin SS), cause more severe symptoms than other types.