Without the Sickle Cell Data Collection program, we will see greater burdens and higher costs for both families and health care systems.

The FDA has approved the world’s first gene-edited treatment for symptoms of sickle cell disease. Experts weigh in on the potential benefits and limitations.

A man and woman, both with sickle cell, share what their experience was like finding love, and what prospective partners need to know.

Sickle cell disease can lead to serious complications. Here are the options to treat and to cure it.

New gene therapy improves the life of 18-year-old with Sickle Cell Disease which affects 5,000 New Jersey residents living with the condition.

Sickle cell disease symptoms range from extreme pain to fatigue and fussiness in babies. WebMD explains how to spot the symptoms of this blood disorder.

There is no clear path for African patients to get access to the treatments, which have multimillion-dollar price tags and are highly complex to manufacture and deliver.

Sickle cell patient Dominique Goodson, 38 and pregnant with her first child, said she would like to get a gene therapy a year or so after she gives birth in December, but she needs to make sure ...

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland is enrolling patients in an innovative clinical trial that seeks to cure sickle cell disease. The trial is the first in the U.S. to apply non-viral CRISPR-Cas9 ...

A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say. They credit state-of-the-art genetic treatment. Medical history made at Cohen Children's Medical ...

Assyrian sickle sword, Late fourteenth to early thirteenth century BCE: reign of Adad-nirari I (c. 1307-1275 BC) (Met Museum) Warfare is a part of history that has played an important role in human ...

Sickle cell disease patients are dependent on transfusions of healthy red blood cells – over time this causes complications of its own.