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

My hands developed what is known as dactylitis (painful swelling of ... One erratic symptom of sickle cell disease is debilitating pain when the body is in a crisis. I would spend a week in ...

Recent research highlights the significant underuse of disease-modifying therapies for sickle cell disease, despite their ...

Sickle cell disease changes the shape of blood cells ... Swelling: Painful swelling in the hands and feet, known as dactylitis, can occur in infants and young children. Frequent infections ...

When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School in the mid-2000s, one of his first clinical encounters ...

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 ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — News 8 is once again honoring Black history by looking at health care and the racial disparities many report facing. According to the Pew Research Center, overall, 18% ...