Nikki Peterson, like approximately 100,000 other Americans, was born with sickle cell anemia. The 43-year-old lives in Upper Marlboro, Md., and ends up in the hospital about four times during what she ...

Most individuals living with sickle cell disease who presented to the emergency department with a pain crisis, known as vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC), were not triaged appropriately according to ...

Researchers have found a link between the release from malformed red blood cells of the vital protein that carries oxygen and episodes of severe pain in people with sickle cell disease. The discovery ...

Exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel), a CRISPR/Cas9 gene-edited cell therapy, eliminated vaso-occlusive crises in 97% of participants with severe sickle cell disease. The therapy led to substantial ...

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

We get a call for a girl having a “sickle cell crisis” in the projects on Osborn Street, in the East New York section of Brooklyn. My partner Bronson’s brow wrinkles as he scans the computer screen ...

Kids are more likely than adults to get proper treatment WEDNESDAY, Dec. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — U.S. emergency rooms are failing patients in severe pain from a sickle cell disease crisis, a new ...

Somewhere between a whisper and a groan, he murmured, “Mommy, it hurts.” Then he curled his six-year old body into ball and collapsed onto the floor. It was Christmas Day, 2018. And for the first time ...

WASHINGTON — A cold windy day might be a nuisance for most people, but for those suffering from sickle cell, it could mean a day of extra pain. Research from the National Institutes of Health shows ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Sickle cell disease is a devastating, inherited blood disorder that affects an estimated eight million people worldwide and roughly 100,000 here in the United States, most of them ...

You're reading Part 5 of Coercive Care, a yearlong examination of the denial of reproductive autonomy for people with sickle cell disease. ST. LOUIS — All morning, nurses had been coming in, taking ...