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

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.

When it was announced in 2023 that the world’s first Crispr-based gene-editing therapy had been approved in the UK there was ...

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

Gene therapy for sickle cell disease may help improve a major contributing factor to stroke risk in patients, reports a new study from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Many people with sickle ...

A new gene therapy for people who can have a stem cell transplant but do not have a suitable donor has been approved.

Evelyn Quartey carries the sickle cell trait, as did her ex-husband and first son, Emmanuel, who passed away from Sickle Cell Disease in 2009 at 7. Her younger son Gerald had been diagnosed with the ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Sickle cell anemia disproportionately affects Black people, causing severe pain, potential organ damage and in some cases, death. Many times, only blood transfusions can provide ...

After 35 years of consistent pain, Allan Byamukama became one of the few individuals in the world cured of sickle cell ...

We've been hearing a lot of reporting recently about using the latest genetic technology to try and treat sickle cell disease. Scientists are also making progress using older DNA techniques to help ...