A Falmouth teen, Jayden Wilsey, is the first to receive gene therapy to treat sickle cell at Boston Children's Hospital.

As World Sickle Cell Awareness Day on June 19 draws near, a collaborative of 47 community organizations and medical providers ...

A renowned Harvard hematologist, Maureen Okam Achebe, has called for the institutionalisation of continuous newborn screening ...

Without the Sickle Cell Data Collection program, we will see greater burdens and higher costs for both families and health ...

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

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

Victoria Gray is the first person in the world to receive CRISPR,  a gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease created by ...

The evolutionary link between sickle-cell trait and malaria resistance showed that humans can and do adapt. But are the “bugs” that make us sick evolving as well? While malaria is the best ...

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

Preethi Marri, M.D. from USA Health joined WKRG News 5 for The Doctor is In to discuss sickle cell disease and summer safety.

For columnist Mary Shaniqua, who tracks her health closely, not being able to discern the causes of a sickle cell crisis is ...

Much attention has been paid to malaria research conducted on inmates at Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary and the fraught ...