A recent Vanderbilt study has found a cure for sickle cell disease, a blood disorder where the body creates mutated red blood ...
NY resident Sebastien Beauzile was treated with a pioneering new gene therapy approach called Lyfgenia, curing his sickle ...
Kumar's daughter diagnosed with Sickle Cell Anaemia, highlighting challenges faced by tribal communities in Andhra Pradesh.
Anemia remains a major public health concern in India, affecting women, children and pregnant mothers, leading to severe ...
SCD patients hospitalized for opioid overdose have fewer serious complications but face longer hospital stays and higher ...
The Long Island man had been coming to the hospital since he was 2 months old, now after 21 years he is cured. Read on to ...
Sebastien Beauzile from Laurelton, Long Island, has become the first person in New York State to be cured of sickle cell ...
In a commentary accompanying the study, Sebastian Mendez-Marti, MD, and Swee Lay Thein, DSc, both of the Sickle Cell Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, said the difference in ...
Sickle cell anemia, first described in 1910, primarily affects people of African, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern descent.
With approximately 18,000 babies born with sickle cell disease (SCD) annually out of an estimated 896,000 births, Ghana has announced plans to screen every newborn baby for the condition.