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

Learn about the global clinical trial for sickle cell disease aimed at improving quality of life and addressing anemia.

The Abu Dhabi Biobank campaign shed light on how cord blood can support the treatment of more than 80 serious diseases.

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

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

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 ...

NEW YORK – Boston Children's Hospital has granted a worldwide license for an investigational gene therapy for sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia to Caring Cross, the nonprofit announced this ...

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

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.

Sickle cell anemia is the world's most common genetic disorder. It causes the red blood pigment hemoglobin to crystallize, which results in rigid, malformed red blood cells with a sickle shape. This ...