Adolescents and young adults with sickle cell disease may face challenges in accessing physical therapy, a study reports.

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

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

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 disease affects millions of children every year, many of them African American. Keep yourself, family and loved ones healthy by knowing and sharing the facts. In the United States, most ...

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Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a series of genetic blood abnormalities. Due to hemoglobin damage, your red blood cells (RBCs) lose their adaptable donut shape and adopt a "C" shape. These cells become ...

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

Recent Trump administration cuts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has thrown the future of Michigan’s sickle cell disease registry into doubt. The Michigan Sickle Cell Data Collection Program, ...

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — There is an incredible story of love and sacrifice out of Plant City that helped to heal a little girl from sickle cell disease. Aliyah Reid spent the first five ...

Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has commended two Kenyan scientists who are developing a treatment for sickle cell disease.Scedamin is a pediatric formulation of hydroxyurea being developed ...