Gene therapy for sickle cell disease may help improve a major contributing factor to stroke risk in patients, reports a new ...

Corresponding author Akshay Sharma, MBBS, MSc, St. Jude Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy talks ...

Among the many vendors and community resource tables at Juneteenth last week was a table manned by Sarahia Benn whose mission was to Shine a Light for Sickle ...

Every year, over 150,000 Nigerian children are born into pain, uncertainty, and a life of compromised health.They are not victims of war or famine. They are victims of ignorance, misdiagnosis, weak ...

Families of those who have sickle cell disease in the Philadelphia area are pushing for more research and a cure.

Researchers have found a promising new method for gene therapy. They successfully restarted inactive genes by bringing them ...

When available, the educational toolkit will provide patients with sickle cell disease information on the gene therapy ...

Sickle cell disease is a chronic blood disorder that requires careful management, not only through medications and medical care but also through proper nutrition. While many people focus on fruits ...

According to reports, an estimated 7.74 million people lived with sickle cell disease in 2021. This represents a 41.4% increase from 5.46 million in 2000.

Evelyn Quartey carries the sickle cell trait, as did her ex-husband and first son, Emmanuel, who passed away from Sickle Cell Disease in 2009 at 7. Her younger son Gerald had been diagnosed with ...

Sickle cell disease is a genetic, lifelong condition that affects red blood cells, causing them to become sickle-shaped and block blood flow to other parts of the body. This disease is most seen ...

Individuals with both sickle cell disease (SCD) and sickle cell trait are at higher risk than others of developing renal medullary cancer (RMC), the rarest and deadliest subtype of kidney cancer.