India faces a silent anaemia epidemic, with rising cases across all demographics. In most cases, public tend to disregard its ...

Sickle cell patients stand a one in four chance of having a sibling or parent who is a full-match marrow donor, without the trait for sickle cell or the disease. With those odds, nonprofit St. Jude — ...

Sickle cell disease, a genetic blood disorder, disproportionately affects Black individuals, with one in 365 Black babies born with it in the U.S. New, high-cost gene therapies offer potential cures ...

Despite years of chronic pain and health issues from sickle cell disease, Candis King always loved looking out for others. At Colgan High School, she was known as someone who brought extra clothes for ...

In the small, single-room house of the Vadakottathara Iruala settlement in Attappadi, seven-year-old Amritalakshmi’s smiling photograph now rests where she once slept beside her siblings.

RICHMOND, Va. — They say twins share everything, a birthday, a bond, a heartbeat. But for one Richmond family, those shared moments include a pain that only strengthened their determination and drive.

When Shekea Lindsay of Tonawanda found out that her newborn daughter, MaKenzie, was born with sickle cell anemia, she was shocked. She knew she carried the trait for the inherited blood disorder, but ...

(InvestigateTV) — A gene therapy recently approved by the FDA to treat patients with Sickle Cell Anemia is now being administered in St. Louis. In 2023, the FDA approved Lyfgenia, developed by ...