FIVE YEARS IS URGED TO GET TESTED. THERE IS A POSSIBLE CURE FOR SICKLE CELL DISEASE AND IT’S NOW UNDER REVIEW AT THE FDA. HERE TO TALK ABOUT THAT IS DOCTOR TODD ELLERIN, VICE CHAIR OF MEDICINE AT ...

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

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month, and around the country health professionals continue to discuss the disease that riddles those who have it with excruciating pain.

Regulators on Friday approved two gene therapies for sickle cell disease that doctors hope can cure the painful, inherited blood disorder that afflicts mostly Black people in the U.S. The Food and ...

At age 45, Dr. Lakiea Bailey said, for the longest time, that she was the oldest person with sickle cell anemia that she knew. The executive director of the nonprofit patient advocacy group the Sickle ...

Hydroxyurea is an oral chemotherapy drug that doctors may prescribe to people with sickle cell disease. It may help prevent complications due to sickle-shaped blood cells clumping together in small ...

DRUG ADMINISTRATION JUST APPROVED A TREATMENT FOR SICKLE CELL DISEASE. SICKLE CELL DISEASE IS A RED BLOOD CELL DISORDER THAT AFFECTS 100,000 AMERICANS, MANY OF WHOM ARE BLACK. RED BLOOD CELLS BECOME ...

Last week, the Food and Drug Administration approved two new gene therapies to treat sickle cell disease. Roughly 100,000 people in the U.S. live with the debilitating and painful blood disorder, most ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — June 19 is World Sickle Cell Day, a day to raise awareness of sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder that affects red blood cells. Dr. Ardie Pack-Mabien from USA Health ...