A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say. They credit state-of-the-art genetic treatment. For 21 years, Sebastien Beauzile suffered chronic pain ...

Scientists have discovered more than a dozen genes that regulate the production of fetal hemoglobin in people of African ...

Can we predict that natural selection will weed out genetic disease over time? Sickle-cell trait haplotype distribution shows the genetic advantages of this mutation. In the deoxygenated ...

The University of Tennessee is hosting a federally funded conference to educate U.S. primary care doctors about SCD to ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

Children with sickle cell disease, a chronic hemolytic anemia, present with a wide variety of neurological syndromes, including ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, transient ischemic attacks ...

Today, CASGEVY is approved for use in patients with sickle cell disease in the United States and multiple countries in Europe and the Middle East. “It’s an amazing gift to have been able to ...

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