Despite a Trump administration push, there are few facilities offering the complex treatment in the rural areas where many ...

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 ...

A view of paintings related to sickle cell on a table as Dominique Goodson, who has sickle cell and advocates for awareness about the disease, takes a phone call in her room at her home in the ...

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

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

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It's been more than a month since the FDA approved two milestone gene-editing treatments for sickle cell disease, but lining up patients for these therapies will be a challenge ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Sickle cell anemia disproportionately affects Black people, causing severe pain, potential organ damage and in some cases, death. Many times, only blood transfusions can provide ...

Barbara Nabulo, a sickle cell disease patient, has emerged as a dedicated advocate for others facing the same condition in rural Uganda. Despite her own challenges with the disease, Nabulo serves as a ...

Beam Therapeutics, based in Cambridge, Mass., released early clinical data from its first trial for patients with sickle cell disease that employed a gene editing tool, known as CRISPR. All four ...

ROANOKE, Va. – Ensuring no one fights alone. The Carilion Clinic Sickle Cell Collaborative is holding a walk to honor sickle cell patients and their caregivers on Saturday. Sickle cell disease is a ...