Thirty-five states have agreed to participate in a federal pilot program aimed at helping Medicaid patients access costly ...

Martin Mwita, 20, is the first patient in St. Louis and among the first across the country to receive a new gene therapy for ...

Scenes from the Sickle Cell Foundation of Palm Beach County’s 2025 Eva Mack Breakfast at the Kravis Center on Saturday, April ...

Listen to a short summary Read by Guy R. Your browser does not support the audio element.Sickle cell disease is a serious ...

The pillar of the community often offered advice to members of her church and never backed down once she set her mind to ...

Sickle cell disease experts are worried that recent staffing changes at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will impact a program that collects data about the genetic disease and how ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I was recently at the American Red Cross to donate blood and was given interesting material on the need for Black blood donors for sickle cell anemia patients. The booklet ...

Traveling to cold climates with sickle cell disease can be daunting. Low temperatures can trigger a crisis, causing intense pain and discomfort. None of us want that. Among the most important things I ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I was recently at the American Red Cross to donate blood and was given interesting material on the need for Black blood donors for sickle cell anemia patients. The booklet described ...

Health experts, government officials and patient right advocates from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania gathered in Dar es Salaam this week to assess progress and chart the way forward to improving ...

Currently, diagnosing SCD requires expensive tools like high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), which limits early detection in large populations.