Listening to the community's needs, the Sickle Cell Consortium also created the Caregiver Summit, offering a vital space for ...

Clifton Kirkman, a brave warrior in the fight against sickle cell, was born before Michigan's sickle cell mandate, leading to ...

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

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says officials with Medicare and Medicaid are working with manufacturers to create an innovative payment structure for the treatment.

“Our results reinforce that hydroxyurea, the most efficacious medicine available for sickle cell disease, continues to have ...

When even one tiny section of a person’s genetic code becomes mutated or modified, cells can begin to act out of ...

AB Science will be granted a patent, valid through 2040, covering the medical use of masitinib as a treatment for sickle cell ...

MONDAY, April 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Women with sickle cell disease often have pain crises around the time of their period, and researchers now think they know why. Inflammation increases ...

Period-driven inflammation could influence the risk of pain events among women with sickle cell disease Levels of C-reactive protein increase among women with sickle cell disease during the first ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of genetic disorders that result in red blood cells, which carry oxygen through the body, having an abnormal, sickle-like shape. This can result in anemia ...

Sickle cell conditions are genetic blood disorders that affect haemoglobin, the molecule in red blood cells responsible for carrying oxygen throughout the body. While both sickle cell trait and ...