"It feels like glass running through your veins." Faith Adjei-Sarpong lives with sickle cell disease and, like many others ...
An additional £1m has been invested to keep an emergency care unit going at the Royal London Hospital.
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It's been more than a month since the FDA approved two milestone gene-editing treatments for sickle cell disease, but lining up patients for these therapies will be a challenge ...
Sickle cell disease is often thought of solely as a blood disorder, but new research from the Wood Neuro Research Group ...
"The shutting down of units like this, adding to people's waiting time, adding to people's journey time, are the types of things that could definitely leave someone with sickle cell in a lot of pain, ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Sickle cell anemia disproportionately affects Black people, causing severe pain, potential organ damage and in some cases, death. Many times, only blood transfusions can provide ...
Female adolescents and adults with sickle cell disease are at risk for a range of menstrual complications, especially pain and abnormal uterine bleeding. That’s according to the authors of a new multi ...
The first gene therapies approved to treat sickle cell disease in December 2023 are struggling on the market. But there are glimpses of forward momentum as Vertex and Genetix Bio provide updates.
CRISPR gene therapy Casgevy can nearly eliminate sickle cell crises, but difficult stem‑cell collection is delaying access ...
Beam Therapeutics, based in Cambridge, Mass., released early clinical data from its first trial for patients with sickle cell disease that employed a gene editing tool, known as CRISPR. All four ...
A 21-year-old New York man who has spent much of his life battling sicken cell anemia has now been declared disease free thanks to a breakthrough gene therapy at Cohen Children's Medical Center. What ...