Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

On this map, the distribution of sickle-cell anemia haplotypes among nations with high prevalence of the disease are shown. Five distinct beta-globin haplotypes (indicated by colors) are found in ...

Sebastien Beauzile became the first person in NY to be made symptom-free after undergoing a new type of gene therapy.

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 ...

The UAB Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center brings together scholars and researchers working in the forefront of basic, translational and clinical research, with the overarching goals to discover new ...

MONDAY, March 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- 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 ...

A Fayetteville teen is making history in North Carolina after undergoing a new gene therapy for sickle cell disease. Aaron Scott was diagnosed with sickle cell at birth. Sickle cell is a genetic ...

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 ...