"The shutting down of units like this, adding to people's waiting time, adding to people's journey time, are the types of things that could definitely leave someone with sickle cell in a lot of pain, ...
Members of Fulcrum management will be joined by Dr. Martin Steinberg, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of ...
Pain related to sickle cell disease (SCD) increases during menstruation, as do emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations, for many women and girls—according to a new, nationwide study led ...
BOWLING GREEN, KY.- According to the CDC, about 90,000 non-Hispanic Black or African American people in the United States have sickle cell disease. Outside the U.S., the condition is more common in ...
Recent therapies like hydroxyurea (Droxia, Bristol-Myers Squibb), the first FDA-approved drug for SCD in 1994, increase fetal hemoglobin (HbF), which, through unknown pathways, improves SCD symptoms ...
More than two years after its approval, only about 60 patients across the U.S., Middle East, and Europe have been treated with the gene-editing therapy. Specialists at four sickle centers told STAT ...
Two Pee Dee siblings are officially cured of sickle cell disease after more than a decade of living with the genetic blood ...
For most of his 20 years, a New Jersey man knew pain as a daily reality. Now, after a one-time CRISPR gene-editing treatment at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Austin Louis says he is finally ...
Florida rapper Lil Poppa has died at 25. Fans are remembering him while talking openly about his battle with sickle cell ...