People are often encouraged to “know their status,” however this healthy habit can be applied to more than just safe-sex practices. Although they are not the only community who suffers with sickle ...

Even the name sounds horrible − sickle cell disease − conjuring up images of menacing hooks, only these hooks are slicing through the bloodstream of an estimated 100,000 Americans, mostly Black ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — One of Vanderbilt's latest studies has found a cure for sickle cell disease. Sickle cell is a blood disorder where the body creates mutated red blood cell proteins. It often ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of genetic blood disorders. A person inherits SCD from their parents when they inherit two copies of the sickle cell gene, one from each parent. This hereditary ...

Despite some recent setbacks to its sickle cell disease (SCD) pipeline, Pfizer is plowing ahead in improving education around the disease. The Big Pharma’s U.K. branch unveiled on Monday the first ...

In November 2023, the UK became the first country in the world to authorise a Crispr gene-editing therapy.

TERRIBLE. NEBRASKA ADVOCATES URGE PEOPLE TO ROLL UP THEIR SLEEVES TO SUPPORT SICKLE CELL AWARENESS MONTH. THE RED BLOOD CELL DISORDER AFFECTS 8 MILLION PEOPLE WORLDWIDE. PATIENTS REQUIRE REGULAR BLOOD ...

When Alvin Henry Jr. was 2, his mother took him to the emergency room because he would not stop crying. Henry visited doctors, specialists, multiple hospitals and emergency rooms before he was ...

Health officials said the decision was taken to use tribal languages after facing challenges in communicating health messages ...

You're reading Part 6 of Coercive Care, a yearlong examination of the denial of reproductive autonomy for people with sickle cell disease. As a small child, Pat Wells just thought she had a bad back.

Nagpur: The Zilla Parishad is running a district-wide campaign to safeguard future generations from sickle cell anaemia. The ...