Sickle cell disease is a devastating, inherited blood disorder that affects an estimated eight million people worldwide and roughly 100,000 here in the United States, most of them African American. It ...

Destiny Hannah at her apartment in Rochester two years after she received a bone marrow transplant at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City to cure her sickle cell disease. Destiny Hannah ...

At the Cleveland Clinic, doctors are using a one-time gene-editing therapy that alters a patient’s own blood-forming stem cells to correct the genetic mutation responsible for the disease. Physicians ...

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) researchers are touting data from a multicenter, international phase 2 clinical trial showing a new, curative treatment for sickle cell disease (SCD).

Elijah Dottery, a young sickle cell patient from Saginaw, was recently chosen as Detroit Lions' player Aidan Hutchinson's ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — For the first time, scientists say new therapies have the power to cure sickle cell disease. The disease is a devastating, inherited blood disorder that affects an estimated ...

A bone marrow transplant process co-developed by investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center is safe and curative for adults with sickle cell disease, according to results of a trial ...

Kennedy and Kendall Richmond are spending Christmas apart, but a bone marrow transplant may finally bring them together.

Exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel) significantly improved HRQOL in severe SCD patients, eliminating severe VOCs and hospitalizations in most cases. The CLIMB SCD-121 trial showed sustained ...

Sickle Cell Foundation Nigeria (SCFN) has performed the nation’s first bone marrow transplant for sickle cell patients with Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). This is a huge step in provision ...

Last year, we carried a story on sickle cell anaemia, Why sickle cell disease should not be a death sentence, on these pages and it generated a lot of interest from our readers. One reader, Sylvia ...

The Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), in partnership with Sickle Cell Foundation Nigeria (SCFN), has started a high-quality, safe bone marrow transplant programme that meets international ...