Learn how to exercise safely with sickle cell disease, including recommended activities, precautions to avoid crises, and ...

Five seemingly unconnected Black and ethnic minority Londoners discover they have superpowers in the hit Netflix series "Supacell". The link between them? They all suffer from sickle cell anaemia, a ...

As early results show promise, the 23-year-old hopes the treatment could finally clear a path toward his dream of becoming a ...

Two papers published in The New England Journal of Medicine highlight the potential of gene editing for treatment of sickle ...

Casgevy’s approval changed the sickle cell disease landscape. Developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, the therapy showed that the disease could be tackled at its genetic root, ...

Avascular necrosis is the breakdown and death of bone tissue due to insufficient blood supply. It’s a common complication of sickle cell disease, but early diagnosis and treatment can help slow ...

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Female adolescents and adults with sickle cell disease are at risk for a range of menstrual complications, especially pain and abnormal uterine bleeding. That’s according to the authors of a new multi ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of genetic blood disorders. A person inherits SCD from their parents when they inherit two copies of the sickle cell gene, one from each parent. This hereditary ...

Despite data gaps in many countries, the burden of sickle cell disease, especially in west and central Africa, underscores the urgent need to scale up newborn and early childhood screening, ...

India has developed BIRSA 101, its first indigenous CRISPR gene therapy for sickle cell disease, using a more precise ...