Sickle cell disease commonly affects people of African and Caribbean backgrounds and can be life-threatening but campaigners ...

A sickle cell gene therapy treatment has allowed a Long Island man to turn a chapter in his life, with doctors declaring him ...

Sebastien Beauzile became the first person in NY to be made symptom-free after undergoing a new type of gene therapy.

Sebastien Beauzile, 21, is the first New Yorker to have received the breakthrough Lyfgenia treatment, according to the New ...

Dehydration increases blood viscosity, making it thicker and more likely for sickled cells to clump together and block blood vessels. Most sickle cell specialists recommend drinking significantly ...

Medical history has recently been made in a New York City hospital. This month, 21-year-old Sebastien Beauzile became the ...

Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine and eight other institutions in the United States, Africa and Europe say they have ...

As a budding hematologist, Sankaran knew all too well that people with sickle cell disease — marked by malformed, sickle-shaped red blood cells that can aggregate and block small vessels ...

Vertex Pharma's £1.65 million ($2.05 million) gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease (SCD), Casgevy ... red blood cells become misshapen and block blood vessels – per year.

Sickle cell is the most common genetic blood disorder ... pain as it produces unusually shaped red blood cells that can block blood vessels which can be life-threatening. But experts says that ...