Medical advances are changing some of the hallmark physical symptoms of sickle cell disease, columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye writes.

Leg ulcers, which are wounds that are slow to heal or won’t heal at all, are a fairly common complication of sickle cell anemia, particularly in male patients and people age 10 to 50.

The Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology divisions at MUSC have joined forces to create and test an ...

The Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology divisions at the Medical University of South Carolina ...

In recent weeks, I’ve been writing about the various research available for the treatment and management of sickle cell disease. One of the treatments I mentioned was hydroxyurea. Today ...

For the first time in his life, a young New Jersey man is pain-free thanks to a new gene treatment working to cure patients ...

Sickle cell history includes triumphant breakthroughs ... and scars on his legs from recurrent ulcers. Nothing notable showed up in a urinalysis, but Irons noticed something odd about Noel ...

No relatives had had anemia, jaundice or leg ulcers to his knowledge ... electrophoresis and has confirmed the diagnosis of sickle-cell trait. there seemed to be some dullness with decreased ...

Normal red blood cells are round and pliable. With sickle cell disease, these cells become elongated and stiff, making it easy for them to get hung up in blood vessels, causing pain and other ...

He was diagnosed in 2024 with the sickle cell trait, which has been linked to the deaths of 14 college football players since 2000, according to the National Registry of Catastrophic Sports ...

Feb. 25, 2025 — A bone marrow transplant process is safe and curative for adults with sickle cell disease, according to results of a trial completed at about 20 cancer ... Brains of People With ...