Thirty-five states have agreed to participate in a federal pilot program aimed at helping Medicaid patients access costly ...

Martin Mwita, 20, is the first patient in St. Louis and among the first across the country to receive a new gene therapy for ...

The pillar of the community often offered advice to members of her church and never backed down once she set her mind to ...

While both sickle cell trait and sickle cell disease involve mutations in the haemoglobin gene, they are fundamentally different in terms of symptoms, severity, and impact on daily life.

People with sickle cell disease are immunocompromised, which means they have an increased risk of infection. For this reason, immunizations are an important part of complete sickle cell care. This ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - The latest round of CDC cuts could drastically impact those with sickle cell disease. Research teams could be eliminated and affect data collection of the blood ...

This is frequently the case in people with sickle cell disease, the vast majority of whom have African ancestry. These transfusions initially make the transfused blood last for a shorter time than ...

Currently, diagnosing SCD requires expensive tools like high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), which limits early detection in large populations.

wiping out teams working on research about adults with cognitive disabilities and sickle cell disease. Work likely to be halted by the cuts includes the collection of data for studying Americans ...

A marker linked to inflammation -- C-reactive protein -- appears to be elevated in the first part of the menstrual cycle in females with sickle cell disease and may contribute to painful vaso ...

Sickle cell disease experts are worried that recent staffing changes at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will impact a program that collects data about the genetic disease and how it ...

which assessed the long-term trends of treatment and access to health care for people living with sickle cell disease. SCD is an inherited blood disorder that increases the risk of stroke ...