TAMPA, Fla. — Sickle cell anemia is a blood disease that affects millions of people around the world and Florida has one of the highest concentrations of sickle cell patients in the country.

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 anemia (SCA) is a disorder that affects a person’s blood. Some research indicates that hundreds of thousands of people around the world experience this condition. SCA is a genetic ...

Many children with sickle cell anemia do not receive guideline-concordant preventive care to reduce their risks for serious infections or stroke, according to research conducted at Children&rsquo ...

The FDA approved the first gene therapies for sickle cell anemia. The two approved treatments, Casgevy and Lyfgenia, will cost $2.2 million and $3.1 million.

The homozygous state (HbSS) is known as sickle cell anemia; compound heterozygotes with HbSβ 0 -thalassemia, who also have a severe reduction in the synthesis of β globin chains, have a similar ...