Sebastien Beauzile, 21, is the first New Yorker to have received the breakthrough Lyfgenia treatment, according to the New ...

A peripheral blood smear is often performed along with a ... vitamin deficiencies are easily treatable. Conditions like sickle cell anemia, hereditary spherocytosis, and thalassemia are inherited.

Sebastien Beauzile is the first person in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia due to a genetic treatment called Lyfgenia.

Sebastien Beauzile, 21, has been cured of sickle cell anemia, according to his doctors at Cohen Children’s Medical Center.

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.

On this map, the distribution of sickle-cell anemia haplotypes among nations with high prevalence of the disease are shown. Five distinct beta-globin haplotypes (indicated by colors) are found in ...

He had come to Florida to surprise his sister for her birthday. But instead, he had become so weak from sickle cell anemia that he had to be carried into a local hospital, then sent to another ...

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 ...

The UAB Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center brings together scholars and researchers working in the forefront of basic, translational and clinical research, with the overarching goals to discover new ...

A Fayetteville teen is making history in North Carolina after undergoing a new gene therapy for sickle cell disease. Aaron Scott was diagnosed with sickle cell at birth. Sickle cell is a genetic ...

“So I didn’t really think anything of it.” Three of her sons live with sickle cell disease, a genetic disorder that changes the shape of their blood cells. Two more of her sons live with the genetic ...