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 ...

Studies show a partial-match bone marrow transplant is rewriting the future for sickle cell patients, with survival rates climbing above 90%, even in adults once thought too sick to benefit. The ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control, approximately 100,000 Americans are affected by sickle cell disease (SCD), a group of inherited red blood cell disorders known to cause pain and other ...

Because SCD can impair blood and oxygen delivery to any part of the body, it can cause a wide range of complications, including anemia, blood clots, and stroke. It can also damage organs, such as the ...

December 12, 2011 — Children with sickle cell anemia who receive the trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine are no more likely to be hospitalized for sickle cell crisis than children with sickle cell ...

Motixafortide effectively mobilized sufficient hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in patients with sickle cell disease enabling accelerated access to gene therapies 90% (9 of 10) of patients were able to ...