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.

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.

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 ...

More than 100 years later, he believes a cure has been found . Sickle cell anemia is a severe inherited disorder that prevents hemoglobin in red blood cells from carrying oxygen to all body parts.

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.

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) ...

A local sickle cell anemia patient met some of his blood donors who helped him get life-saving treatment. The donors-recipient meeting was held at the Rhode Island Blood Center’s Warwick Donor ...

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 ...