A cutting-edge procedure for treating sickle cell disease is changing lives in the St. Louis area, where an estimated 1,200 ...

Learn how to treat a sickle cell disease crisis at home and when you should go to a medical center for more care.

Fewer serious complications. Fewer hospitalizations and blood transfusions. Better growth and development. And a markedly ...

The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital is one of only nine centers nationwide authorized to use the newly approved CRISPR-based treatment for sickle cell disease in patients 12 ...

More than a century after sickle cell disease was first diagnosed, the inherited blood disorder appears to be on the verge of a cure. That progress was kick-started, in part, by the Doris Duke ...

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

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Most patients with sickle cell disease are not using disease-modifying therapies. DMT use increased nearly 10% ...

Sickle cell anemia is the most severe form of sickle cell disease (SCD). Treatments for sickle cell anemia include medications, blood transfusions, and bone marrow transplants. SCD is a group of ...

Avascular necrosis is the breakdown and death of bone tissue due to insufficient blood supply. It’s a common complication of sickle cell disease, but early diagnosis and treatment can help slow ...

“Think of the blood vessels like a city highway,” says Elizabeth Margolskee, MD, MPH, a clinical pathologist and an associate professor of clinical pathology and laboratory medicine at the Perelman ...