A 21-year-old man has become the first person in New York—and one of the first in the world—to be cured of sickle cell anemia. A novel form of gene therapy enabled the man to receive a life-changing ...

He looks and acts like a typical teenager, but at 17, Desmond Pullen has had more close calls than most people can claim in a lifetime agonizing headaches, collapsed lungs, several strokes and ...

It actually was the day he began a new groundbreaking treatment that cured him of sickle cell anemia. In his own words, “It’s really like a new birthday. I feel like a new man.” But it wasn ...

Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited blood disorders. It causes red blood cells to take on a crescent (sickle) shape and become rigid. These cells can break apart easily, leading to anemia ...

A New York patient is the first in the state cured of sickle cell anemia The new Lyfgenia genetic treatment uses a patient’s own stem ... we were delighted," Dr. Banu Aygun, a New York-based physician ...

For 21 years, Sebastien Beauzile lived with the chronic pain of sickle cell anemia. Now, thanks to a groundbreaking genetic treatment ... a New York-based physician who specializes in Pediatric ...

Sebastien Beauzile became the first person in NY to be made symptom-free after undergoing a new type of gene therapy.

Stroke Rates Increasing in Individuals Living With SCD Despite Treatment Guidelines Sep. 20, 2024 — The incidence of stroke continues to increase for adults and children living with sickle cell ...

Can we predict that natural selection will weed out genetic disease over time? Sickle-cell trait haplotype ... that could lead to treatments tailored to specific patients based on their genotype ...

(CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved two gene-based treatments for sickle cell disease, including the first therapy that uses the gene-editing technique CRISPR ...

Children with sickle cell disease, a chronic hemolytic anemia, present with a wide ... to determine the current evidence-based treatment strategies, and to suggest strategies for investigating ...

MONDAY, March 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- For 21 years, Sebastien Beauzile lived with the chronic pain of sickle cell anemia. Now, thanks to a groundbreaking genetic treatment, he is the first ...