Discover effective strategies to minimize sickle cell pain crises and avoid hospitalizations. Leading hematologists share ...

Recent research highlights the significant underuse of disease-modifying therapies for sickle cell disease, despite their ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 1 out of every 365 Black people has sickle cell disease and the sickle cell trait affects 10% of Black people, compared to .3% of white ...

A new type of bone marrow transplant can cure sickle cell disease with only half of the donor's cell proteins matching, ...

Esther Nkemakolam runs her fingers through kinetic sand and sings a “Moana” song as UPMC Children’s Hospital nurse Taylor ...

Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) can potentially cure sickle cell disease, an inherited and painful blood disorder, but ...

When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School in the mid-2000s, one of his first clinical encounters ...

Sickle Cell Disease is a complex and debilitating genetic blood disorder that primarily affects people of African, ...

The underutilization of disease-modifying therapy by people with sickle cell disease is “persistent and alarming,” according ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A blood disorder that primarily affects minority communities, sickle cell disease changes the shape and ...

Trial at @hopkinskimmel and other centrs finds reduced-intensity haploidentical bone marrow transplant can cure sickle cell ...

Last month, the NICE endorsed Casgevy for use in the NHS under a managed access scheme to treat sickle cell disease.