Sickle cell patients and their families are speaking out, saying their pain is being treated with a one-size-fits-all ...
Medicaid is doing a novel payment system for the new, promising and expensive sickle cell treatment. It may become a model ...
Under the agreement, participating states will receive “discounts and rebates” from the drugmakers if the treatments don’t ...
A year ago, NBC News joined Wedam Minyila as he began undergoing a groundbreaking treatment for sickle cell disease. The process has included having his stem cells removed for a revolutionary gene ...
At age 45, Dr. Lakiea Bailey said, for the longest time, that she was the oldest person with sickle cell anemia that she knew. The executive director of the nonprofit patient advocacy group the Sickle ...
The FDA is reviewing a drug that could cure sickle cell anemia. Right now bone marrow or stem cell transplants are the only FDA-approved cures. The Food and Drug Administration says there’s an unmet ...
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 ...
A Black female doctor when that was rare, she developed a diagnostic test for the disease that is still a standard tool, as ...
Sebastien Beauzile’s recently announced cure from sickle cell disease brings hope to thousands of mostly Black Americans who ...
CHANGING THE LIVES OF SICKLE CELL DISEASE PATIENTS. ONE LOCAL MAN IS FINALLY GETTING RELIEF FROM THE CRIPPLING PAIN HE’S EXPERIENCED FOR YEARS. OUR JESSICA BROWN IS HERE WITH HIS STORY. PATIENTS TELL ...
This video is no longer available. It is described as intense pain shooting throughout your body and has had a history of misdiagnosis and complications as patients are constantly traveling to ...
In sickle-cell disease, blood cells stuffed with hemoglobin are distorted into sickle shapes. The misshapen cells get stuck in blood vessels, causing strokes, organ damage and episodes of agonizing ...