Children with sickle cell anemia need better preventive care, says CHLA study An image of sickle cell anemia is seen on a blood smear. (Image by Ed Uthman reproduced under the CC BY 2.0 license) ...

Sickle cell disease is a rare genetic blood disorder that affects every aspect of a person’s life. Predominately impacting people of color, the disease has long been misunderstood by the ...

Last May, a 12-year-old with sickle cell anemia was the first person to receive a new gene therapy to treat the disease. The process is painful, expensive, and still frightening and uncertain, but ...

Symptoms such as chest pain may signal a sickle cell crisis. Sickle cell anemia (SCA) causes your red blood cells to be hard and sickle-shaped (like a “C”) instead of round.

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 ...

Sickle cell disease is a group of conditions that affect a person’s red blood cells, causing them to take a sickle shape that can't move through blood vessels easily and can block oxygen from ...

For 21 years, Sebastien Beauzile suffered chronic pain from debilitating sickle cell anemia. "Sickle cell was like a blockade for me, but now it's just like a wall that I just jumped over," he said.

Though Beauzile is the first in New York to successfully undergo sickle cell anemia-curing gene therapy, he's preceded by Kendric Cromer, a 12-year-old boy from Washington, DC who received ...

Currently, the only way to cure sickle cell anemia is by replacing a person’s bone marrow with bone marrow from a donor who is a close genetic match. However, not everyone has a well-matched donor.