Sebastien Beauzile, 21, became the first person in New York state to be made symptom-free of sickle cell disease after ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

On this map, the distribution of sickle-cell anemia haplotypes among nations with high prevalence of the disease are shown. Five distinct beta-globin haplotypes (indicated by colors) are found in ...

Researchers studied the efficacy of hydroxyurea at reducing stroke risk in sickle cell anemia, the most common and severe ...

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 ...

Symptoms of sickle cell anemia can vary in severity and may include ... Swelling: Painful swelling in the hands and feet, known as dactylitis, can occur in infants and young children.

Twenty-one-year-old Sebastien Beauzile was all smiles as he was serenaded with “Happy Birthday” on what he calls his new birthday at Cohen Children’s Medical ...

Children with sickle cell disease, a chronic hemolytic anemia, present with a wide variety of neurological syndromes, including ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, transient ischemic attacks ...

A Cherokee County man says he has been successfully cured of Sickle Cell Anemia complications. Kyle Registre, 23, joined a Children's Healthcare of Atlanta gene therapy clinical trial in 2019 ...

Aaron Scott, of Fayetteville, is the first in North Carolina to receive a new FDA-approved therapy which uses the patient's own cells to relieve the pain of sickle cell disease.

This makes it difficult for those with Sickle Cell Anemia, who are of African descent. “Many of those patients require up to 100 transfusions of blood every single year. It’s a very painful ...