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, ...

Is sickle cell disease (SCD) a blessing or a curse? I came across this question on social media a few days ago. As I prepare to turn 40, my answer, shaped by four decades of living with SCD, is that, ...

Blocking the activity of a protein called BACH2 may be a valuable strategy for treating sickle cell disease (SCD) and related blood disorders, a study shows. Researchers found that suppressing BACH2 ...

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 researcher at the University of Cincinnati has received more than $550,000 in grant funding to study what drives bone damage and chronic pain in people with sickle cell disease (SCD). The funding ...

Share this page with email Share this page on Facebook Share this page on X Share this page on Reddit Since I was a child, I would have bouts of pain here and there, but I didn’t understand why. My ...

Share this page with email Share this page on Facebook Share this page on X Share this page on Reddit Print Preferred Source on Google When I joined Bionews, the publisher of this website, in 2023 as ...

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 ...

In recognition of Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month in September, the Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month campaign features a series of stories highlighting the real-life experiences of people ...