However, if the anemia is due to red blood cell destruction (hemolysis), the whites of the eyes may show a yellow color. The ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

A 21-year-old Long Island patient has been cured of sickle cell anemia thanks to a gene therapy treatment. Medical history has recently been made in a New York City hospital. This month, 21-year-old ...

Can we predict that natural selection will weed out genetic disease over time? Sickle-cell trait haplotype distribution shows the genetic advantages of this mutation. In the deoxygenated ...