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

Sickle cell patients are fighting to save a specialist NHS unit they rely on during pain crises, warning that A&E delays and ...

KERA News has identified another man who died after a Tarrant County jailer knelt on him. The federal government has cautioned against kneeling on handcuffed people.

The court raised serious concerns over 115 deaths between January and December last year, and said that the "state will have ...

Africa accounts for the majority of global births affected by the condition, yet universal newborn screening remains rare.

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 ...

The U.S. Social Security Administration has requested the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine establish an ad hoc committee to conduct a study to review the latest published ...

An investigation is underway after a woman died at the Marion County Adult Detention Center. Jacqueline Denise Sublett, 58, was found unresponsive in her cell at 6:52 a.m., on Jan. 15, 2026, according ...

In my 39 years with sickle cell disease, pain has been an uninvited and frequent guest and my most prominent symptom. Sickle cell crises are acute episodes of pain caused by the sickling of red blood ...

Tensions surrounding Iran are drawing dangerously close to a breaking point, with President Trump threatening military action against the regime that has mercilessly slaughtered hundreds of its own ...

Iran’s army vowed Saturday to join the crackdown on protesters, one of a number of stepped-up warnings from the country’s security services as demonstrations against the regime continue to grow and ...