Researchers at the New York Blood Center have made a breakthrough in understanding the body’s autoimmune response to sickle ...

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.

Notably, sickle ... cell anemia was published in 1910 by a physician named James Herrick. He described a 20 year old college student who was severely anemic. A smear of this patient's blood ...

The Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ held a Sickle Cell blood drive Saturday, to help those affected with the condition.

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 ...

Kyle Registre's childhood dream of becoming a pilot can finally come true now that he says he's been cured of sickle cell ...

(WIBW) - African Americans give blood at a rate of three percent yearly, compared to their non-black counterparts. This makes it difficult for those with Sickle Cell Anemia, who are of African ...