VAS-101, a curcumin-based gel for SCD, was well tolerated and showed signs of easing sickle cell pain, fatigue, and red blood ...

Children with sickle cell anemia who undergo stem cell transplant tend to have better long-term cognition than those on ...

The Boozer brothers have joined with NMDP to encourage young adults to register as blood stem cell donors and support ...

A vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC), a hallmark of sickle cell disease (SCD), is an episode of intense pain related to blood vessel blockage and a lack of oxygen supply. In SCD, genetic mutations lead to ...

The causes of sickle cell disease (SCD), an inherited blood disorder, are related to hemoglobin, a protein that helps red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the body. People with sickle cell have ...

When good specialists from a healthcare team move on, it can disrupt a patient's world, writes columnist Mary Shaniqua. But ...

A comparison of sickle cell disease care in the U.S. and Nigeria by columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye revealed a need for more ...

Sickle cell anemia is an inherited blood disorder that can cause debilitating pain crises and put patients at increased risk for infections, among other symptoms. There are several treatments that can ...

Mitapivat raised hemoglobin and was linked to lower transfusion burden in a Phase 3 sickle cell disease trial, Agios reported ...

Beam Therapeutics plans to ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve ristoglogene autogetemcel, or risto-cel, its single-dose, gene-edited cell therapy candidate for people with ...

One of the most widely discussed symptoms of sickle cell anemia is a sickle cell crisis. This is an episode of pain caused when sickle-shaped red blood cells block the body’s blood vessels and prevent ...