For the first time in his life, a young New Jersey man is pain-free thanks to a new gene treatment working to cure patients ...

The Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology divisions at MUSC have joined forces to create and test an ...

Individuals with both sickle cell disease (SCD) and sickle cell trait are at higher risk than others of developing renal medullary cancer (RMC), the rarest and deadliest subtype of kidney cancer.

A New Jersey woman stole $560,000 in hospital treatments by pretending she had sickle cell anemia, according to the Lancaster ...

A 30-year-old New Jersey woman was charged with two felonies after police said she lied about having sickle cell anemia and refused to pay for over $560,000 in treatment from a hospital in Lancaster ...

Vertex and CRISPR Therapeutics have won the backing of NICE for their gene-editing therapy Casgevy as a treatment for the blood disorder ... turning it down for sickle cell disease.

Pfizer's reported interest in acquiring sickle cell disease specialist Global Blood Therapeutics (GBT) has been confirmed, with the $68.50-per-share deal valuing GBT at $5.4 billion. As we ...

There are more types of sickle cell crisis than a vaso-occlusive crisis, writes columnist Mary Shaniqua, who summarizes ...

Researchers have identify a set of biomarkers that could someday make it easy to spot the disease in a patient's blood sample.

Adolescents and young adults with sickle cell disease may face challenges in accessing physical therapy, a study reports.

Along with treatment, using a home monitor can help you identify the things that make your blood sugar increase or decrease, from exercise to illness, stress to dehydration, and more. The Centers ...

Gene Modification Could Improve Cancer Treatment's Success Rate Feb. 7, 2025 — A research team has made a major discovery on how the CUL5 gene affects CAR-T cell therapy, an advanced cancer therapy.