Despite a Trump administration push, there are few facilities offering the complex treatment in the rural areas where many ...

Sickle cell disease is a devastating, inherited blood disorder that affects an estimated eight million people worldwide and roughly 100,000 here in the United States, most of them African American. It ...

Sickle cell anemia, or sickle cell disease (SCD), is a genetic disease of the red blood cells (RBCs). Normally, RBCs are shaped like discs, which gives them the flexibility to travel through even the ...

For more than a year, NeDina Brocks-Capla avoided one room in her large, brightly colored San Francisco house — the bathroom on the second floor. "It was really hard to bathe in here, and I found ...

Teonna Woolford has always said that when it came time to build a family, her ideal would be to have six kids. Why six? "I don't know where that number came from. I just felt like four wasn't enough," ...

At the Cleveland Clinic, doctors are using a one-time gene-editing therapy that alters a patient’s own blood-forming stem cells to correct the genetic mutation responsible for the disease. Physicians ...

For years, my family struggled to understand the constant, mysterious pain my younger sister and I endured. Her cries were so frequent that she earned the nickname “Holly” because she was always ...

Ekaya Duncan, 24, CEO of Mainplug TV and a sickle cell warrior, explains that his journey with the condition began in infancy ...

Elijah Dottery, a young sickle cell patient from Saginaw, was recently chosen as Detroit Lions' player Aidan Hutchinson's ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- A mother of two with sickle cell disease met several blood donors who helped save her life. The New York Blood Center held the reunion on Valentine's Day. Stacey Sottile is a ...

Hundreds of toys will brighten the holidays for children battling sickle cell disease at Golisano Children’s Hospital, thanks ...