An adult or child with sickle cell disease may be eligible for benefits through Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) ...

A gene known as HbS was the center of a medical and evolutionary detective story that began in the middle 1940s in Africa. Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious ...

Living with sickle cell disease means navigating the unpredictability of pain crises – those sudden, excruciating episodes that often lead to emergency room visits. For patients and their ...

Can we predict that natural selection will weed out genetic disease over time? Sickle-cell trait haplotype distribution shows the genetic advantages of this mutation. In the deoxygenated ...

Oluwatosin Adesoye finds much that pleases her as she notes her evolution over two years as a columnist for Sickle Cell ...

When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School in the mid-2000s, one of his first clinical encounters was with a 24-year-old patient whose sickle cell disease left them with ...

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 ...

Feb. 25, 2025 — A bone marrow transplant process is safe and curative for adults with sickle cell disease, according to results of a trial completed at about 20 cancer ... Brains of People With ...

The launching of the Sentara-Eastern Virginia Medical School Comprehensive Sickle Cell Program in October gave adults ...

The Sickle Cell Blood Drive with the American Red Cross ... People may register in advance at RedCrossBlood.org using the sponsor code KSSICKLECELL. Walk-ins also are welcome.

According to CDC, sickle cell is a genetic condition present at birth, inherited when a child receives two genes—one from each parent—that code for abnormal hemoglobin. [iStockphoto ...