Sickle cell disease is a devastating, inherited blood disorder that affects an estimated eight million people worldwide and ...

Caden Major was born with sickle cell disease – an inherited blood disorder affecting red blood cells. Now at 19 years old, ...

Major is one of the first pediatric patients in Florida to receive gene therapy for sickle cell disease since the FDA ...

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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 ...

For individuals living with sickle cell disease (SCD), the transition from pediatric to adult care can be one of the most ...

Motixafortide alone and in combination with natalizumab can support the collection of the large number of stem cells required by gene therapies for sickle cell disease within a single apheresis cycle ...

Family, neighbors and close friends gathered for a candlelight vigil to remember 23-year-old Jamar Jordan Gray, who died Dec.

ATLANTA - On Benjamin E. Mays Drive in southwest Atlanta, a 7,000-square-foot center feels more like a day spa than a medical clinic. The new Sickle Cell Sanctuary was designed specifically for people ...

Today is World Sickle Cell Disease Day. The international awareness day is observed annually to increase public knowledge and an understanding of sickle cell disease and the challenges experienced by ...

For more than a year, NeDina Brocks-Capla avoided one room in her large, brightly colored San Francisco house — the bathroom on the second floor. "It was really hard to bathe in here, and I found ...

Hundreds of toys will brighten the holidays for children battling sickle cell disease at Golisano Children’s Hospital, thanks ...