Sickle cell disease is a devastating, inherited blood disorder that affects an estimated eight million people worldwide and roughly 100,000 here in the United States, most of them African American. It ...

"We've changed a chronic disease into a curative disease," Dr. Mitchell Cairo of Westchester Medical Center said. Hanif Mouehla wants to become a hematologist. Some 90% of patients in the Phase I ...

Despite a Trump administration push, there are few facilities offering the complex treatment in the rural areas where many ...

We get a call for a girl having a “sickle cell crisis” in the projects on Osborn Street, in the East New York section of Brooklyn. My partner Bronson’s brow wrinkles as he scans the computer screen ...

BLYTHEVILLE, Ark. (KAIT) - A 9-year-old Blytheville girl is suffering from one of the worst forms of sickle cell disease. And her family is suffering, too. Timberlie Wilson recently spent two weeks at ...

THE DISEASE. THERE IS A CRITICAL NEED FOR BLOOD DONATIONS FOR SICKLE CELL ANEMIA PATIENTS, ESPECIALLY FROM AFRICAN AMERICANS. IT’S REALLY HARD TO DEAL WITH THE SICKNESS. 34 YEAR OLD CORNELIA JONES WAS ...

Here are some things A. was told when she arrived at the hospital one night in June 2023. That she couldn’t have the pain medicine she usually got for a sickle cell crisis because she was six weeks ...

Exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel), a CRISPR/Cas9 gene-edited cell therapy, eliminated vaso-occlusive crises in 97% of participants with severe sickle cell disease. The therapy led to substantial ...

Tarrant County has amended its autopsy report for jail inmate Robert Miller to back its findings that his 2019 in-custody death was a result of overexertion leading to a sickle cell crisis, which ...

December 12, 2011 — Children with sickle cell anemia who receive the trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine are no more likely to be hospitalized for sickle cell crisis than children with sickle cell ...

Ekaya Duncan, 24, CEO of Mainplug TV and a sickle cell warrior, explains that his journey with the condition began in infancy ...

September is National Sickle Cell Anemia Awareness Month. Sickle cell anemia is a disease that is inherited genetically through a trait passed to a child by both parents, affecting the blood cells.