Sickle cell disease is a devastating, inherited blood disorder that affects an estimated eight million people worldwide and roughly 100,000 here in the United States, most of them African American. It ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Nobel Prize-winning technology offers a potential cure for sickle cell disease. Simply put, doctors can edit a patient’s genes to alter blood cells. But this gene editing ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Going to the movies, hanging out with friends, playing video games — Jamal Bailey is your typical young adult who likes walking. But sometimes even something as simple as walking can ...

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 ...

The answer is "it should be," says columnist. That way, sickle cell patients could receive the support that they need.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Low placental growth factor had a significant association with early-onset preeclampsia for women with sickle ...

Black donors are crucial for the U.S. blood supply, yet their presence continues to lack. This gap means sickle cell patients are not getting blood that matches them the best. “If you have the more ...

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 ...