Two Pee Dee siblings are officially cured of sickle cell disease after more than a decade of living with the genetic blood ...

More than two years after its approval, only about 60 patients across the U.S., Middle East, and Europe have been treated with the gene-editing therapy. Specialists at four sickle centers told STAT ...

At age 45, Dr. Lakiea Bailey said, for the longest time, that she was the oldest person with sickle cell anemia that she knew. The executive director of the nonprofit patient advocacy group the Sickle ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — One of Vanderbilt's latest studies has found a cure for sickle cell disease. Sickle cell is a blood disorder where the body creates mutated red blood cell proteins. It often ...

Around 2% to 3% of the Nigerian population has sickle cell disease (SCD), while about 25% of Nigerians carry the sickle cell trait, making it a major public health concern. Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Daniel Cressy reclines in a hospital bed to begin a gene therapy treatment to cure his sickle cell disease at Manning Family ...

A man who had a painful disorder says he is the first person in Brighton to be cured of the condition thanks to a pioneering treatment. Diagnosed at the age of two, J’rimaya Agbotamame Eronmosele ...

Medicaid is doing a novel payment system for the new, promising and expensive sickle cell treatment. It may become a model for all gene therapies... Serenity Cole enjoyed Christmas last month relaxing ...

Medicaid is doing a novel payment system for the new, promising and expensive sickle cell treatment. It may become a model ...