Sickle cell disease is a devastating, inherited blood disorder that affects an estimated eight million people worldwide and ...

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 ...

Sickle cell disease can lead to a severe complication known as acute chest syndrome (ACS), but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. A new study by Mass General Brigham investigators has ...

A class of drugs used for their ability to stop tumor cells from dividing is now under study for their potential to reduce the pain and damage caused by sickle cell disease, investigators report. The ...

“To provide menstruating patients with sickle cell disease the best care, primary care physicians, gynecologists, and ...

St. Georges Technical High School students using CRISPR in a Box. On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a sickle cell disease drug called Casgevy, co-developed by Vertex ...

At age 45, Dr. Lakiea Bailey said, she was the oldest person with sickle cell anemia that she knew. The executive director of the nonprofit patient advocacy group the Sickle Cell Consortium was ...

A sickle cell patient and hit-and-run victim, Lawrence Morka, speaks to TEMITOPE ADETUNJI about his journey, losses, unfulfilled dreams, and a desperate plea for a chance to walk, work, and live ...