Spherocytosis is a blood condition in which some red blood cells have an abnormal shape. They look spherical, like a soccer ball, rather than indented in the middle like a Frisbee. These spherocyte ...

Some doctors told him he'd live with the disease forever, but Khaled Alsheebani never stopped believing treatments would advance one day.

You might have wondered why some people with sickle cell disease seem to live relatively normal lives while others spend half ...

Despite some recent setbacks to its sickle cell disease (SCD) pipeline, Pfizer is plowing ahead in improving education around ...

The team responsible for updating the CDC’s “contraception bible,” which advises doctors on birth control safety, was ...

One of the largest nonprofits supplying blood to hospitals and health centers is urging African Americans to donate more ...

Sickle Cell Disease is the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States, affecting the lives of 100,000 people, ...

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 ...

The evolutionary link between sickle-cell trait and malaria resistance showed ... such as numerous diarrheal diseases, yellow fever, and Lassa hemorrhagic fever. Today, with access to heretofore ...

Even if children with sickle cell disease appear asymptomatic, it's still crucial to provide proper care, says columnist.

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 ...