In honor of World Sickle Cell Awareness Day UAMS is launching a new support group aimed at connecting individuals living with sickle cell disease.

Sickle cell anemia causes red blood cells to become hard, sticky, and C-shaped * Tribal communities in India face higher ...

Beam reports breakthrough results from BEAM-101's early-stage trial for severe sickle cell disease. Read more here.

One of the first people in the UK to be cured of sickle cell disease says he now has a "great life". J'rimaya Okojie had a ...

Some doctors told him he'd live with the disease forever, but Khaled Alsheebani never stopped believing treatments would advance one day.

A 30-year-old New Jersey woman was charged with two felonies after police said she lied about having sickle cell anemia and refused to pay for over $560,000 in treatment from a hospital in ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pennsylvania (WGAL) — A New Jersey woman stole $560,000 in hospital treatments by pretending she had sickle cell anemia, according to the Lancaster County district attorney.

Individuals with both sickle cell disease (SCD) and sickle cell trait are at higher risk than others of developing renal medullary cancer (RMC), the rarest and deadliest subtype of kidney cancer.

For the first time in his life, a young New Jersey man is pain-free thanks to a new gene treatment working to cure patients of sickle cell disease. Gerald Quartey, 18, is the first patient in the ...