Columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye would love to attend speaking engagements abroad, but her family is concerned. Assessing the risk is crucial.

Guest writer Whitney Smith is a sickle cell warrior and advocate because some medical professionals don't know what the ...

Columnist Mary Shaniqua is disappointed to learn that her port-a-cath, which she got to facilitate blood exchange ...

A study links vitamin D deficiency to more sickle cell complications in children, including pain crises, hospitalizations, ...

As she approaches her 40th birthday, columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye ponders whether life with sickle cell disease is a blessing or a curse.

Roche has announced the launch of a new test that can screen newborns for sickle cell disease (SCD) and two other serious genetic disorders at the same time. The test, known as the LightMix Newborn ...

A European Medicines Agency committee has issued a positive opinion on the gene-editing therapy Casgevy (exagamglogene autotemcel) in treating sickle cell disease (SCD) and transfusion-dependent beta ...

Share this page with email Share this page on Facebook Share this page on X Share this page on Reddit The three-year collaboration will leverage Orna’s proprietary lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery ...

If you’re like me and have a good medical team, over time, you’ve likely grown attached to them. When you’re fortunate enough to have a competent and consistent team that genuinely cares about your ...

Among children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) and cerebral macrovasculopathy (CV), or disease affecting the brain’s large and medium-sized blood vessels, age at CV diagnosis, the severity of blood ...

Casgevy (exagamglogene autotemcel) is now approved in the U.S. to treat children as young as 2 with sickle cell disease (SCD) and recurrent vaso-occlusive crises (VOCs). The U.S. Food and Drug ...

A camp in North Carolina offers children living with sickle cell disease the chance to build confidence, independence, and emotional strength while connecting with others who also live with a chronic ...