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

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 ...

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 ...

For 21 years, Sebastien Beauzile lived with the chronic pain of sickle cell anemia.Now, thanks to a groundbreaking ge ...

Rare diseases affect one in 17 people in the UK, but a Government initiative designed to improve their quality of life will ...

Stem cell therapy has emerged as a groundbreaking treatment option for corneal injuries, offering hope to individuals ...

Adolescents with SCD often struggle with maintaining friendships, school performance, and participation in extracurricular ...

"Sickle cell disease was described in modern medicine in 1910, and here we are over 100 years later, and this is the first cure you are seeing," Dr. Jeffrey Lipton said. In the United States ...

His eyes would turn yellow regularly due to ... You’re engineering those cells to recover from sickle cell disease and essentially fix the deficits that’s there. That in and of itself takes ...

In healthy people, blood cells are round and flexible. But in people with sickle cell disease, blood cells are deformed and cause a range of health problems. Prince Frederik dies from rare genetic ...

People living with inflammatory conditions, such as inflammatory bowel disease, blood cancers and sickle cell anaemia, can have a higher risk of blood clots. The new study, published in the high ...