First patient in New York has been cured of sickle cell anemia with advanced treatment
Sebastien Beauzile lived with the chronic pain of sickle cell anemia. Now, thanks to a groundbreaking genetic treatment, he ...
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First Patient Cured of Sickle Cell Anemia
Sickle cell anemia, first described in 1910, primarily affects people of African, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern descent.
Sickle cell gene therapy frees teen from life of pain
Aaron Scott, of Fayetteville, is the first in North Carolina to receive a new FDA-approved therapy which uses the patient's own cells to relieve the pain of sickle cell disease.