Angella Ferguson, a Leader in Sickle Cell Anemia Research, Dies at 100

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

How Losing My Limbs Turned Me Into a Different Kind of Cook

Two years ago, our cooking columnist Yewande Komolafe woke from a coma and soon learned her body would be profoundly altered.

Medicaid tries new approach with sickle cell: Companies only get paid if costly gene therapies work

Serenity Cole enjoyed Christmas last month relaxing with her family near her St. Louis home, making crafts and visiting ...
Houston Public Media

Medicaid has a new way to pay for costly sickle cell treatment: Only if it works

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

GLP-1s may reduce all-cause mortality, adverse events in sickle cell disease

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . GLP-1 receptor agonist use appeared linked to lower risk for all-cause mortality among people with sickle cell ...
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Suffolk Sickle Cell Foundation fills gaps for patients in crisis for more than 50 years

SUFFOLK, Va. — People living with sickle cell disease say the severe pain is unpredictable, exhausting, and too often dismissed. And for many in Hampton Roads, the Suffolk Sickle Cell Foundation has ...
WVEC

Suffolk Sickle Cell Foundation fills gaps for patients in crisis for more than 50 years

Suffolk Sickle Cell Foundation fills gaps for patients in crisis for more than 50 years To stream 13News Now on your phone, you need the 13News Now app.
University of California

Rewriting the code: The inside story of the first CRISPR cure

At 3 months old, Victoria Gray wouldn’t stop crying. Blood tests brought devastating news: she had sickle cell disease, a genetic blood disorder that blocks blood flow and oxygen delivery to the body.
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U.S. ERs Are Failing Sickle Cell Patients In Pain, Study Says

U.S. emergency rooms aren’t providing prompt treatment for sickle cell pain crisis Only 1 in 3 patients get opioid painkillers in a timely manner, as recommended Kids are more likely than adults to ...
SF Weekly

U.S. ERs Are Failing Sickle Cell Patients In Pain, Study Says

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 ...