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

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 ...

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

Because sickle cell anemia symptoms can begin by four months of age, early diagnosis is critical. All newborns in the United States are now tested for the disease. Sickle cell anemia can be identified ...

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

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

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a series of genetic blood abnormalities ... Your body's RBCs transport substances like iron, protein, oxygen, and carbon dioxide. Anemia, weakness, and weariness can all ...

Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) disproportionately impacts Adivasi (tribal) communities in India. Current research has focused on epidemiological and biomedical aspects but there has been ...

Evelyn Quartey carries the sickle cell trait, as did her ex-husband and first son, Emmanuel, who passed away from Sickle Cell Disease in 2009 at 7. Her younger son Gerald had been diagnosed with ...

Beam Therapeutics' investigational modified cell therapy for treating sickle-cell disease has been granted orphan-drug status by the Food and Drug Administration. The U.S. Cambridge, Mass.- ...

In addition to sickle cell disease, rilzabrutinib has received orphan drug designation for immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) in the US, the EU, and Japan, for warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia (wAIHA ...