Sickle cell disease commonly affects people of African and Caribbean backgrounds and can be life-threatening but campaigners ...

Sebastien Beauzile, 21, is the first New Yorker to have received the breakthrough Lyfgenia treatment, according to the New ...

A sickle cell gene therapy treatment has allowed a Long Island man to turn a chapter in his life, with doctors declaring him ...

Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine and eight other institutions in the United States, Africa and Europe say they have ...

Medical history has recently been made in a New York City hospital. This month, 21-year-old Sebastien Beauzile became the ...

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A recent Vanderbilt study has found a cure for sickle cell disease, a blood disorder where the body creates mutated red blood ...

Thanks to a groundbreaking genetic treatment, Sebastien Beauzile is the first person in New York to be cured of the disease.

Aaron Scott, of Fayetteville, is the first in North Carolina to receive a new FDA-approved therapy which uses the patient's own cells to relieve the pain of sickle cell disease.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Sickle Cell Disease in Social Security Disability ... How and why are regular red blood cell (RBC) transfusions used ...

Sankaran knew all too well that people with sickle cell disease — marked by malformed, sickle-shaped red blood cells that can aggregate and block small vessels — experience excruciating pain ...

Sickle cell disease -- a painful blood disorder in which red blood cells are shaped like crescents instead of discs and tend to clog up blood vessels -- affects about 100,000 Americans (primarily ...