The lifelong effects of rare blood disorder diagnoses in childhood are being analysed in a first-of-its-kind study led by the ...

Chronic pain in young people with sickle cell disease means greater disability, more burden, and lower quality of life, a U.S ...

The U.S. Social Security Administration has requested the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine establish an ad hoc committee to conduct a study to review the latest published ...

During the opioid crisis in the United States, acute pain management has remained a persistent challenge for both patients and clinicians.

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

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.

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

Caring Cross, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to improving access to advanced therapies, and Boston Children's Hospital today announced a collaboration to provide a sustainable, affordable pathway ...

Columnist Michelle Harlan, who's currently taking hydroxyurea to treat her sickle beta-zero thalassemia, considers some other ...