According to the World Health Organization (WHO), sickle cell disease is a genetic disorder caused by inheriting mutant haemoglobin genes from both parents. Africa records more than 200,000 sickle ...

Often, our sickle cell disease patients choose to join clinical trials — led by world-class specialists from Fred Hutch and UW Medicine — to be able to try the newest therapies that are not available ...

In Kenya, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that 14,000 children are born with sickle cell each year. Globally, over 300,000 children are born with the condition annually. In the absence ...

In support of continued sickle cell treatment efforts, civil rights attorney Ben Crump announced a $100,000 donation to Northwell Health.

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

The Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia (SCFG) is excited to announce that registration is now open for the 45th Annual SCFG 5K Road Race/Walk! Participants are invited to lace up their sneakers and ...

They all suffer from sickle cell anaemia, a condition that disproportionately ... a month after the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) approved a new drug that may ...

A Fayetteville teen is making history in North Carolina after undergoing a new gene therapy for sickle cell disease ... they go see a specialist with Duke Health when Aaron was a toddler.

This requires intensive medical care and monitoring, nursing care, pharmacy support, social work and mental health ... world of difference. Most of all, we’ve seen that with the right care, sick ...