Indianapolis Recorder

Sickle cell advocacy day to highlight urgent needs at statehouse

Hoosiers from across the state will gather at the Indiana State Capitol on Monday, Feb. 2, to call attention to the urgent ...

Angella Ferguson, a Leader in Sickle Cell Anemia Research, Dies at 100

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

Gene-Edited Cells Alleviate Pain Crisis in Sickle Cell Disease

Exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel), a CRISPR/Cas9 gene-edited cell therapy, eliminated vaso-occlusive crises in 97% of participants with severe sickle cell disease. The therapy led to substantial ...
NPR Illinois

Medicaid has a new way to pay for costly sickle cell treatment: Only if it works

Medicaid is doing a novel payment system for the new, promising and expensive sickle cell treatment. It may become a model ...