For the first time, two U.S. teenagers with sickle cell disease will be able to go swimming on their spring break, thanks to ...

An adult or child with sickle cell disease may be eligible for benefits through Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) ...

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

Sickle cell disease commonly affects people of African and Caribbean backgrounds and can be life-threatening but campaigners ...

Sebastien Beauzile, 21, is the first New Yorker to have received the breakthrough Lyfgenia treatment, according to the New ...

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

(Reuters) -Gene therapy, with its offer of a possible cure for rare diseases like sickle cell, is losing early investors to ...

A New York patient is the first in the state cured of sickle cell anemia The new Lyfgenia genetic treatment uses a patient’s own stem cells A $100,000 donation was made for more treatment ...

MONDAY, March 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- For 21 years, Sebastien Beauzile lived with the chronic pain of sickle cell anemia. Now, thanks to a groundbreaking genetic treatment, he is the first person ...

A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say. They credit state-of-the-art genetic treatment. Medical history made at Cohen Children's Medical ...

A Fayetteville teen is making history in North Carolina after undergoing a new gene therapy for sickle cell disease. Aaron Scott was diagnosed with sickle cell at birth. Sickle cell is a genetic ...

With a U.S. green light for its encapsulated cell therapy technology in the bag, privately held biotech Neurotech Pharmaceuticals is on the verge of making its commercial debut. The FDA last week ...