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% ...

Evie Junior’s life has been defined by pain. He was born with sickle cell disease, which causes red blood cells to be sticky and C-shaped, not smooth and round. These cells are supposed to move freely ...

Chantez Sanford Jr., 24, of Southfield, says his life has been transformed after undergoing Lyfgenia gene therapy at Children ...

Michigan's health department announced a new plan to improve care and support for the 4,000 residents with sickle cell disease.

Sickle cell disease—the subject of a new Seminar in The Lancet—is one of the most prevalent and fastest-growing genetic ...

A world-first gene therapy for severe sickle cell disease has not been approved for widespread NHS use in new draft guidance. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) said it ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved a new therapy for treating sickle cell disease, marking the first instance of CRISPR gene editing receiving approval from federal regulators.

Opinion: Thousands of Marylanders are living with sickle cell disease, but our health care system has not kept pace with our ...

Gina Kolata has been reporting on sickle cell disease since 2018, documenting patient experiences and the science that may lead to cures. On Tuesday, Oct. 31, an advisory committee to the Food and ...

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 ...

If you or someone you know has sickle cell disease (SCD), you may have heard of Lyfgenia, one of two gene therapies approved for this condition. Gene therapies are the only treatments for SCD that can ...