His mother’s long fight with sickle cell disease prompted rapper Keenan “Special” Bristol to pursue a project to raise awareness about a condition that claims thousands of lives annually.

Vertex Pharma's £1.65 million ($2.05 million) gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease (SCD), Casgevy, has been given the green light for use by the NHS in England under a managed access ...

West Palm Beach proposes giving the historic Jenkins House to the Sickle Cell Foundation, led by City Commissioner Shalonda Warren. The city would also provide $350,000 for renovations to the ...

These states represent about 84% of Medicaid beneficiaries with sickle cell disease. Insurers, however, are wary broadly of the financial costs associated with cell and gene therapies, a report ...

Balikis Salami, a sickle cell amputee, speaks to AJIBADE OMAPE about her life after amputation made her drop out of school, and how her story attracted the attention of Nigeria’s First Lady ...

Sickle cell is one of the diseases in Kenya that is surrounded by many misconceptions and cultural beliefs A group of survivors of the disease from Kakamega have, however, embarked on a mission to ...

Children with sickle cell disease, a chronic hemolytic anemia ... Blood pressure should be measured annually to screen for hypertension (C). Children with the HbSS genotype or HbSβ 0-thalassemia ...

Pfizer is voluntarily withdrawing its sickle cell disease (SCD) therapy Oxbryta from all world markets after finding an "imbalance" in deaths in its clinical trials programme. It's a blow to the ...

So why not give it a try? I bought a ticket for a seat in the back row, because even if “second screen” behavior was explicitly sanctioned, I didn’t want to annoy the people sitting around ...

An "armored" CAR T cell therapy engineered to secrete interleukin-18 (IL 18) demonstrated cancer reduction in 81% and complete remission in 52% of patients with treatment-resistant B-cell lymphomas.

The inner folding screen's bezels will also be thinner, according to the same source. Pictured below is the Fold6's bezel, which allegedly measures 1.9mm. The Fold7 will take that down to a rather ...