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

(Reuters) -Gene therapy, with its offer of a possible cure for rare diseases like sickle cell, is losing early investors to ...

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

Avianah Drakeford was born with sickle cell disease, a genetic disorder that negatively affects how blood moves around the ...

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

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

Sickle cell is a genetic blood disorder that affects ... growing worse with age. His eyes would turn yellow regularly due to jaundice. “It reminded me of glass shattering in my body,” Aaron ...

When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School in the mid-2000s, one of his first clinical encounters was with a 24-year-old patient whose sickle cell disease left them with ...

For teenagers with sickle cell disease, these years can be even more ... jaundice (yellowing of the skin and eyes), and weight fluctuations, which can lead to self-consciousness and low self ...

"My son's eyes turned yellow ... After undergoing various clinical tests in 2015, James received a diagnosis of sickle cell anemia. Sickle cell anemia is one form of SCD, a non-communicable ...

The launching of the Sentara-Eastern Virginia Medical School Comprehensive Sickle Cell Program in October gave adults ...

A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say. They credit state-of-the-art genetic treatment. Medical history made at Cohen Children's Medical ...