We get a call for a girl having a “sickle cell crisis” in the projects on Osborn Street, in the East New York section of Brooklyn. My partner Bronson’s brow wrinkles as he scans the computer screen ...

The American Red Cross says we are in the midst of a severe blood donation shortage. Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the numbers for donations have never returned to normal. That’s a major concern of some ...

GLP-1 receptor agonist use appeared linked to significantly reduced all-cause mortality among people with sickle cell disease ...

Patients in sickle cell crisis can wait in agony for hours if inappropriately triaged by an ER Those inappropriately placed in a less severe pain category waited nearly three times as long for their ...

Africa accounts for the majority of global births affected by the condition, yet universal newborn screening remains rare.

December 12, 2011 — Children with sickle cell anemia who receive the trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine are no more likely to be hospitalized for sickle cell crisis than children with sickle cell ...

The analysis included 66 visits: 23 and 43 visits were assigned emergency severity index 2 and 3. HealthDay News — A majority of patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) with vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC ...

SUFFOLK, Va. — People living with sickle cell disease say the severe pain is unpredictable, exhausting, and too often dismissed. And for many in Hampton Roads, the Suffolk Sickle Cell Foundation has ...

Exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel), a CRISPR/Cas9 gene-edited cell therapy, eliminated vaso-occlusive crises in 97% of participants with severe sickle cell disease. The therapy led to substantial ...

“I used to love it because they had a section where you could play games,” said Burgess, who was born with sickle cell anemia, an inherited blood disorder. “They were really nice and friendly.” But ...

The year ahead feels like a long stretch of unwrapped gifts. Some days are bright boxes with bows; others are wrinkled wrapping paper hiding something unexpected.For me, living with sickle cell ...