A Falmouth teen, Jayden Wilsey, is the first to receive gene therapy to treat sickle cell at Boston Children's Hospital.

To boost awareness and early intervention, the Ministry of Health Family Welfare urges citizens to recognise the warning ...

Sanofi SNY announced that the FDA has granted orphan drug designation to its investigational BTK inhibitor, rilzabrutinib, ...

"Sickle cell largely affects patients from African and African-Caribbean backgrounds, who are less likely to have a matching stem cell donor, and this community has been waiting years for a new ...

Novo Nordisk has doubled down on position in the sickle cell disease (SCD) category with a $1.1 billion agreement to acquire Forma Therapeutics, and its therapeutic candidate etavopivat ...

Columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye explains why preventing malaria infections is particularly important for those with sickle cell ...

A low red blood cell (RBC) count increases the risk of anemia. Ways to boost RBCs include eating foods that contain iron, vitamins B12 and B9, vitamin C, vitamin A, and copper. Increasing exercise ...

Researchers evaluated the use of ultrawide field swept-source OCT-A to evaluate retinal vasculature in patients with sickle cell retinopathy.

June 3, 2025 — Using a newly devised, three-dimensional model to study the regeneration of nerve tissue in the nose, researchers have discovered that one type of stem cell thought to be dormant ...

2025 — A team identified herpes virus saimiri, which infects the T cells of squirrel monkeys, as a source of proteins that activate pathways in T cells that are needed to promote T cell ...

[iStockhoto] A self-breast exam might reveal a lump or lumps, causing worry about the possibility of breast cancer. It's crucial to understand the different conditions associated with these lumps.

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