Additional efforts are needed to improve quality of life and mitigate suffering in people with sickle cell disease. The field ...

Twenty-month-old Vida Rodriguez is the reason her 7-year-old sister, Alessia, is playing at home — instead of lying in a ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month, and Memphis sits at the center of the crisis. The Mid-South has one of the highest rates of sickle cell disease in the nation, according to ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month, and millions of people worldwide are living with the disease. But advances in treatment are being made. WRBL News 3 anchor Cameron ...

While I am not a board-certified hematologist, I am an expert on my personal experience with sickle beta-zero thalassemia. One might say I am “board-certified” in living with the condition! When I ...

September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month, highlighting the need for blood donations for those with the disease. Sickle cell disease is a genetic disorder causing red blood cells to block blood flow, ...

A research collaboration involving scientists and students at The University of Texas at Dallas has found a clear connection between chronic sickle cell disease pain and the bacteria present in the ...

Two Saturdays ago, an amazing community turned up for a most fun football tournament; the sickle cell disease (SCD) community. The Utalii Sports Club hosted the Children Sickle Cell Foundation and its ...

TULSA, Okla. — As the number of babies born with sickle cell increases, an Oklahoma non-profit is shedding light on the disease and the resources in our community. “People live in pain,” said Velvet ...

Dr. Ambroise Wonkam, director of the McKusick-Nathans Institute and Department of Genetic Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, is dedicated to studying genetic and genomic ...

When Dr. Ambroise Wonkam walked into a panel on medical genetics out of curiosity, he had no idea it would shape the course of his career. Born in Cameroon, Wonkam has dedicated his career to studying ...