Chronic pain in young people with sickle cell disease means greater disability, more burden, and lower quality of life, a U.S ...

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

Memantine, a cheaply available drug used for decades to treat Alzheimer's, may help prevent sickle cell crises, especially in ...

History does not only hinge on major events. Sometimes it is a 15-minute conversation or a chance encounter between two people. An inconspicuous train journey at the beginning of the 1940s is where ...

Why Elon Musk says saving for retirement will be 'irrelevant' in the next 20 years Welcome to Greenland, an economy reliant on subsidies and shrimp 17 college basketball players charged in ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (WJRT) - A Saginaw family is celebrating the new year at Mott Children's Hospital as their son, 10-year-old Elijah Dottery, continues his fight against sickle cell anemia. He was ...

SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) - At just 10 years old, Elijah Dottery has already faced more challenges than most people will in a lifetime. The Saginaw native has battled sickle cell anemia since birth, ...

CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. — A Cherokee County man living with Sickle Cell Disease is now the first known person with the condition to get a medical pilot’s license. Channel 2’s Fred Blankenship spoke with ...

Doctors say new gene-based treatments could offer long-term relief — and possible cures — for people living with sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease has long shortened lives in the United States, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - 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 ...

Caden Major was born with sickle cell disease – an inherited blood disorder affecting red blood cells. Now at 19 years old, doctors said he's essentially "cured" thanks to gene therapy treatment at ...