Daniel Cressy has suffered from symptoms of the painful genetic condition since birth ...

A 23-year-old from suburban New Orleans may have just opened a new chapter in how Louisiana treats one of its most persistent ...

You're reading Part 5 of Coercive Care, a yearlong examination of the denial of reproductive autonomy for people with sickle cell disease. ST. LOUIS — All morning, nurses had been coming in, taking ...

A 23-year-old man from Louisiana has become one of the first people in the United States to be functionally cured of sickle ...

“Think of the blood vessels like a city highway,” says Elizabeth Margolskee, MD, MPH, a clinical pathologist and an associate professor of clinical pathology and laboratory medicine at the Perelman ...

Sickle cell disease is the most common inherited disease worldwide [1]. It arises from a range of pathogenic variants of genes responsible for encoding haemoglobin, encompassing HbSS, HbSC, and HbS ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Most patients with sickle cell disease are not using disease-modifying therapies. DMT use increased nearly 10% ...

Ahead of World Sickle Cell Day, Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai reported the successful bone marrow transplant of a 33-year-old ...

Avascular necrosis is the breakdown and death of bone tissue due to insufficient blood supply. It’s a common complication of sickle cell disease, but early diagnosis and treatment can help slow ...

A shortage of donated blood is putting a spotlight on the need for more volunteers, as thousands of Mississippians with ...