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 ...

Adding erythropoietin to hydroxyurea treatment could significantly improve quality of life for patients with sickle cell ...

LOS ANGELES — Children with sickle cell anemia are vulnerable to serious infections and stroke, but many do not receive the preventive care that could help them stay healthier longer, according to a ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It's been more than a month since the FDA approved two milestone gene-editing treatments for sickle cell disease, but lining up patients for these therapies will be a challenge ...

Motixafortide alone and in combination with natalizumab (VLA-4 inhibitor) led to robust hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) ...

Researchers have revealed that hydroxyurea significantly reduces infections in children with sickle cell anemia. Their findings enhance strong evidence of hydroxyurea's effectiveness and could ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. QUEENS, N.Y. (PIX11)—Twenty-one-year-old ...

December 12, 2011 — Children with sickle cell anemia who receive the trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine are no more likely to be hospitalized for sickle cell crisis than children with sickle cell ...

Uganda is among the countries with the highest burden of the disease, with an estimated 33,000 babies born each year carrying the sickle cell trait or disease. For thousands of families across Uganda, ...

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 ...

Dr Oscar Mugerwa, an attending physician at the same health facility, said Jayden no longer responds to hydroxyurea, and a bone marrow transplant is now the best chance to significantly improve his ...

Ranchi: The Jharkhand government has launched a statewide screening campaign for thalassemia, sickle cell disease and anaemia ...