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

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.

A year ago, NBC News joined Wedam Minyila as he began undergoing a groundbreaking treatment for sickle cell disease. The process has included having his stem cells removed for a revolutionary gene ...

KISUMU, Kenya, Jan 26 -- Victoria Hospital in Kisumu, an annex of the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital (JOOTRH), has become the first public hospital in Kenya to acquire a ...

Will Shrank, MD, in December 2025 unveiled a new plan for managing the high costs of an expected future wave of gene-based treatments as many drugmakers seek to more broadly apply the kind of ...

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

A large team of medical researchers at Novartis Biomedical Research has developed a possible treatment for people with sickle cell disease. In their project, published in the journal Science, they ...

The question of what causes complex neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's or multiple sclerosis continues to confound scientists and doctors, with the unknowns standing in the way of early ...

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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