Pain related to sickle cell disease (SCD) increases during menstruation, as do emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations, for many women and girls — according to a new, nationwide study ...

Opportunities in the Sickle Cell Disease market include advancing gene-editing therapies like EDIT-301, expanding VOC-reducing treatments such as inclacumab, and exploring novel drug candidates like ...

Florida rapper Lil Poppa has died at 25. Fans are remembering him while talking openly about his battle with sickle cell ...

BOWLING GREEN, KY.- According to the CDC, about 90,000 non-Hispanic Black or African American people in the United States have sickle cell disease. Outside the U.S., the condition is more common in ...

Blood Assurance on the need for African American blood donors.

Sickle cell anemia (HbSS) is the homozygous dominant variant and the most common and severe form of the disease. Whereas patients who only inherited one gene encoding for abnormal HbS and a different ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — WNCT’s Erin Jenkins sits down with a sickle cell disease survivor and a doctor to learn more about ...

WNCT’s Erin Jenkins sits down with a sickle cell disease survivor and a doctor to learn more about how far their research has come.

Music helps break down barriers. Once students connect emotionally, they are more open to understanding what sickle ...

Recent therapies like hydroxyurea (Droxia, Bristol-Myers Squibb), the first FDA-approved drug for SCD in 1994, increase fetal hemoglobin (HbF), which, through unknown pathways, improves SCD symptoms ...

Fulcrum Therapeutics, Inc.® (Fulcrum) (Nasdaq: FULC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing small molecules to improve the lives of patients with genetically defined rare ...

The Ministry of Health has reiterated its commitment to combating sickle cell disease (SCD) in Ghana, describing it as a significant public health challenge that requires sustained national action and ...