Crizanlizumab (Adakveo) failed to outperform placebo in patients with sickle cell disease, the phase III STAND trial showed.

Sebastien Beauzile, 21, became the first person in New York state to be made symptom-free of sickle cell disease after ...

A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say. They credit state-of-the-art genetic treatment. For 21 years, Sebastien Beauzile suffered chronic pain ...

People's social connections play a critical role in determining whether they adopt preventative health measures that could ...

Sickle cell disease is a life-threatening inherited blood disorder affecting more than 100 000 Americans and millions ...

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

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

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Sickle Cell Disease in Social Security Disability Evaluations is inviting people with sickle cell disease (SCD) and ...

Health officials in Congo suspect a mysterious disease that killed 52 people and sickened 943 in Equateur province to be either malaria or food poisoning. Symptoms include fever, fatigue ...

Identifying the cause of the mystery illness and reining in rising mpox cases are being complicated by war and US funding freezes, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Sickle-cell disease, usually presenting in childhood, occurs more commonly in people (or their descendants) from parts of tropical and sub-tropical regions where malaria is or was common.

Next review: More evidence on exagamglogene autotemcel is being collected. After this, NICE will decide whether to recommend it for use in the NHS and update the guidance. It will be available with ...