As they shift from pediatric to adult care, young adult patients with sickle cell disease appear to visit the ER more often, ...

"The shutting down of units like this, adding to people's waiting time, adding to people's journey time, are the types of things that could definitely leave someone with sickle cell in a lot of pain, ...

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 led ...

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 ...

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 ...

Members of Fulcrum management will be joined by Dr. Martin Steinberg, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of ...

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 ...

Two Pee Dee siblings are officially cured of sickle cell disease after more than a decade of living with the genetic blood ...

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 ...

In many ways, Shamar Harper is a typical 12-year-old boy living in Miramar. He worries about homework, what he’s going to ...

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