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

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 ...

Caden Major was born with sickle cell disease – an inherited blood disorder affecting red blood cells. Now at 19 years old, ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Ryan Dodson, 18, was diagnosed with sickle cell disease ...

The federal government wants to make it easier for Medicaid patients to access new, curative treatments — one of the few initiatives on which President Donald Trump and the public health establishment ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of genetic blood disorders. A person inherits SCD from their parents when they inherit two copies of the sickle cell gene, one from each parent. This hereditary ...

People are often encouraged to “know their status,” however this healthy habit can be applied to more than just safe-sex practices. Although they are not the only community who suffers with sickle ...

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

Key Highlights 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 ...

Sickle cell disease refers to a group of genetic diseases that impact a protein that ferries oxygen through the blood. That protein is called hemoglobin, and in sickle cell disease, aberrant ...

You might have wondered why some people with sickle cell disease seem to live relatively normal lives while others spend half their time in the hospital writhing in agony from pain crises. It’s the ...

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