Farrell High School students are raising awareness for an important cause--donating blood for sickle cell anemia.
Serenity Cole enjoyed Christmas last month relaxing with her family near her St. Louis home, making crafts and visiting ...
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 patients and their families are speaking out, saying their pain is being treated with a one-size-fits-all ...
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How sickle cell changed human evolution

Sickle cell disease is caused by a single genetic mutation that alters the shape of red blood cells. While the condition causes severe pain and health complications, carriers gain resistance to ...
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 ...
Caring Cross, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to improving access to advanced therapies, and Boston Children’s Hospital have announced a collaboration to provide a sustainable, affordable pathway for ...
Chronic pain in young people with sickle cell disease means greater disability, more burden, and lower quality of life, a U.S ...
The government is using sickle cell treatments to test a new strategy: paying only if the therapies benefit patients.
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 ...