At the Cleveland Clinic, doctors are using a one-time gene-editing therapy that alters a patient’s own blood-forming stem cells to correct the genetic mutation responsible for the disease. Physicians ...

For the first time, scientists say new therapies have the power to cure sickle cell disease. The disease is a devastating, ...

The federal government wants to make it easier for Medicaid patients to access new, curative treatments — one of the few initiatives on which President Donald Trump and the public health establishment ...

Caden Major was born with sickle cell disease – an inherited blood disorder affecting red blood cells. Now at 19 years old, ...

Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy traveling through your blood vessels. They are delivering oxygen to all the different tissues in your body and removing carbon dioxide to ...

People are often encouraged to “know their status,” however this healthy habit can be applied to more than just safe-sex practices. Although they are not the only community who suffers with sickle ...

Sickle cell disease refers to a group of genetic diseases that impact a protein that ferries oxygen through the blood. That protein is called hemoglobin, and in sickle cell disease, aberrant ...

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 ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Ryan Dodson, 18, was diagnosed with sickle cell disease ...

Major is one of the first pediatric patients in Florida to receive gene therapy for sickle cell disease since the FDA ...

A Cherokee County man living with Sickle Cell Disease is now the first known person with the condition to get a medical pilot ...

SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) - At just 10 years old, Elijah Dottery has already faced more challenges than most people will in a ...