Mary Shaniqua is a sickle cell patient (HbSS) living in the United Kingdom. She was diagnosed with sickle cell at 18 months old and uses “Shaniqua’s Sickle Chronicles” to narrate her experiences, to ...

Work likely to be halted by the cuts includes the collection of data for studying Americans with sickle cell, a painful blood disorder that predominantly affects Black families, as well as ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I was recently at the American Red Cross to donate blood and was given interesting material on the need for Black blood donors for sickle cell anemia patients. The booklet ...

A marker linked to inflammation, C-reactive protein, may increase significantly during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle in female patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), according to ...

Sickle cell disease experts are worried that recent staffing changes at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will impact a program that collects data about the genetic disease and how it ...

The CDC’s Division of Blood Disorders ran the Sickle Cell Data Collection program, which assessed the long-term trends of treatment and access to health care for people living with sickle cell ...

More information: Jessica Wu et al, C-reactive protein and the menstrual cycle in females with sickle cell disease, Blood Vessels, Thrombosis & Hemostasis (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.bvth.2025.100067 ...

Researchers in South Korea have proposed a novel cancer immunotherapy approach that could complement existing CAR-T (Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell ... a cationic polymer that enhances viral ...

NHS patients with sickle cell disease can now benefit from a groundbreaking gene-editing treatment that holds the potential to cure the condition. The one-off gene therapy, exagamglogene autotemcel ...

Houston Representative Lauren Ashley Simmons sits down with Jala Washington to talk about sickle cell registry legislation. (KXAN photos/Ed Zavala). The legislation would create a state registry ...