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. Medical history made at Cohen Children's Medical ...

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Columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye shares how she processes her emotions when she's feeling guilty about the care she needs due to sickle cell.

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 ...

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 ...

Trial at @hopkinskimmel and other centrs finds reduced-intensity haploidentical bone marrow transplant can cure sickle cell disease. › A bone marrow transplant process co-developed by investigators at ...

Sickle cell anemia is the most common form of severe hemoglobin disorder. An inherited disease, that is, passed on by the parents and present at birth, sickle cell anemia is also a chronic disease and ...