Sickle cell patients and their families are speaking out, saying their pain is being treated with a one-size-fits-all ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --The Red Cross mission to prevent and relieve human suffering continues even when there's not an emergency, from installing smoke alarms to collecting blood donations, and being in a ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It's been more than a month since the FDA approved two milestone gene-editing treatments for sickle cell disease, but lining up patients for these therapies will be a challenge ...

Under the agreement, participating states will receive “discounts and rebates” from the drugmakers if the treatments don’t ...

TIME ON THE CLOCK 633 RIGHT NOW, MORE THAN 100,000 PEOPLE IN THE U.S. HAVE SICKLE CELL DISEASE, AND NEARLY 90% ARE BLACK. YOU CAN MAKE A LIFESAVING DIFFERENCE, ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE LIVING WITH SICKLE ...

Somewhere between a whisper and a groan, he murmured, “Mommy, it hurts.” Then he curled his six-year old body into ball and collapsed onto the floor. It was Christmas Day, 2018. And for the first time ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers observed what they called “alarming” underutilization of disease-modifying therapies for sickle cell ...

Eleven-year-old Martin Mwita, of Omaha, has made more than 300 visits to health care facilities since he was a baby. Because of sickle cell disease, he's suffered three strokes and countless other ...

A Black female doctor when that was rare, she developed a diagnostic test for the disease that is still a standard tool, as ...

Andrea Matthews poses with her son Jonathan Matthews. She started the foundation because her son lives with sickle cell disease. Michelle Parr's sickle cell disease went undiagnosed for 25 years. Her ...

NHS Scotland has approved a one-time CRISPR gene therapy for severe sickle cell disease, offering durable reduction in vaso-occlusive crises for eligible patients.

Africa accounts for the majority of global births affected by the condition, yet universal newborn screening remains rare.