There has been a change in blood donations, with record breaking engagement since the opening of the new donor centre. But ...

Avianah Drakeford was born with sickle cell disease, a genetic disorder that negatively affects how blood moves around the ...

A multimillion-dollar NASA grant will help a Louisville-based nonprofit fund groundbreaking research in the fight against ...

Michelle Harlan, who has sickle beta thalassemia, wants to help others by getting a doctoral degree in clinical psychology.

Scientists have discovered more than a dozen genes that regulate the production of fetal hemoglobin in people of African ...

Prevention is the best medicine.   While not all chronic diseases can be prevented, one of the best ways to stay ...

Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine and eight other institutions in the United States, Africa and Europe say they have ...

While not all chronic diseases can be prevented, one of the best ways to stay healthy is to take preventive health care ...

Recent federal instruction has threatened the $320 million in funding that Tulane University receives yearly, according to an ...

A New Jersey woman used a series of fake names to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in treatment for sickle cell ...

A recent Vanderbilt study has found a cure for sickle cell disease, a blood disorder where the body creates mutated red blood ...