Sickle cell anemia is the most severe form of sickle cell disease (SCD). Treatments for sickle cell anemia include medications, blood transfusions, and bone marrow transplants. SCD is a group of ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Doctors call it an incredibly important but neglected disease. Memphis has some of the highest rates of sickle cell among babies in the entire nation. For this Sickle Cell Awareness ...

At age 45, Dr. Lakiea Bailey said, for the longest time, that she was the oldest person with sickle cell anemia that she knew. The executive director of the nonprofit patient advocacy group the Sickle ...

(Reuters) -U.S. drugmaker Pfizer said on Wednesday it was withdrawing its sickle cell disease treatment Oxbryta from all markets where it is approved, citing risks of a painful complication and deaths ...

SHANGHAI, Aug. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CorrectSequence Therapeutics Co., Ltd. (Correctseq), a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering transformer Base Editing (tBE) technology for the ...

ATLANTA — There’s new hope for those living with Sickle Cell Disease thanks to a unique new treatment approved by the U.S. government. The treatment is a gene cell therapy recently approved by the U.S ...

From 2008 to 2023, there has been a significant decrease in cystic fibrosis mortality rates and a significant rise in sickle ...

CHANGING THE LIVES OF SICKLE CELL DISEASE PATIENTS. ONE LOCAL MAN IS FINALLY GETTING RELIEF FROM THE CRIPPLING PAIN HE’S EXPERIENCED FOR YEARS. OUR JESSICA BROWN IS HERE WITH HIS STORY. PATIENTS TELL ...

Pyrukynd, which Agios sells for a rare type of anemia, missed one of its main objectives in a study seen as crucial for its ...

Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a serious inherited blood disorder that affects the structure of haemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells responsible for transporting oxygen throughout the body .

Shares in Agios Pharma lost nearly half their value in pre-market trading today after it posted mixed clinical results from a ...