Sickle cell disease is a devastating, inherited blood disorder that affects an estimated eight million people worldwide and ...

For individuals living with sickle cell disease (SCD), the transition from pediatric to adult care can be one of the most ...

At the Cleveland Clinic, doctors are using a one-time gene-editing therapy that alters a patient’s own blood-forming stem cells to correct the genetic mutation responsible for the disease. Physicians ...

Major is one of the first pediatric patients in Florida to receive gene therapy for sickle cell disease since the FDA ...

Cannabis appears to be a safe and potentially effective treatment for the chronic pain that afflicts people with sickle cell disease, according to a new clinical trial co-led by University of ...

“To provide menstruating patients with sickle cell disease the best care, primary care physicians, gynecologists, and ...

A Cherokee County man living with Sickle Cell Disease is now the first known person with the condition to get a medical pilot’s license.

Patient Armani Rodriguez grew close with Dr. Maria Cancio while undergoing treatment for sickle cell disease at MSK Kids — a connection forged, in part, through shared culture and language. Armani ...

This article is part of “Innovations In: Sickle Cell Disease,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Twenty-five years ago ...

Clifton Kirkman II moves through life with an invisible weight on his shoulders — and in his blood. A Detroit-based father, journalist, and patient advocate, Clifton has lived with sickle cell disease ...

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have developed two powerful computational tools that could transform how researchers ...

How is it that you’re alive? It’s a question that we rarely ask ourselves—but it’s one that has a definite answer. We all know our heart pumps life-giving oxygen throughout our bodies. How does that ...