For the first time, scientists say new therapies have the power to cure sickle cell disease. The disease is a devastating, ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Northwestern University identified a previously unknown treatment opportunity for sickle cell disease and β-thalassemia. The discovery, ...

When Amy Cohen, 29, finished the New York City Marathon, she broke ground as the first person with the illness to run the 26.2 mile race Mass General Brigham Amy Cohen became the first-ever person ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia reported substantial improvements in quality of life ...

Aug 15 (Reuters) - In the latest setback for Pfizer's (PFE.N), opens new tab sickle cell anemia treatments, experimental drug inclacumab failed to meet the main goal in a late-stage trial for patients ...

This story is the first in an occasional series following Louisiana’s first patients to receive gene therapy for sickle cell disease. On the third floor of Manning Family Children’s Hospital in New ...

So far in 2025, the Trump administration has cut more than $1 billion in NIH grants. That includes a study on sickle cell disease, a blood disorder that affects roughly 100,000 people in the U.S.

What was supposed to be a five-year, $750,000 NIH grant to fund Dr. Charity Oyedeji's sickle cell research at Duke University – was terminated. “I thought it was possible,” Oyedeji said when asked if ...

Since he was very young, Khaled Alsheebani has known the painful, exhausting suffering of sickle cell disease. Despite doctors telling him and his family that he would simply have to learn to live ...

Reeves is an associate professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at the University of Michigan and the principal investigator of the Michigan Sickle Cell Data Collection program. In December 2023, a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — One of Vanderbilt's latest studies has found a cure for sickle cell disease. Sickle cell is a blood disorder where the body creates mutated red blood cell proteins. It often ...

21 year old Sebastien Beauzile celebrates his Lyfgenia infusion with his medical team. Four months later, his doctors consider him cured from sickle cell anemia. A 21 year old man in New York has been ...