What's sickle cell disease, and how did gene therapy cure it? Sickle cell disease is a genetic blood disorder that impacts hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen in red blood cells.

Without the Sickle Cell Data Collection program, we will see greater burdens and higher costs for both families and health care systems.

Despite some recent setbacks to its sickle cell disease pipeline, Pfizer is plowing ahead in improving education around the disease.

A recent Vanderbilt study has found a cure for sickle cell disease, a blood disorder where the body creates mutated red blood cell proteins, which often leads to pain, anemia and other issues.

The underutilization of disease-modifying therapy by people with sickle cell disease is “persistent and alarming,” according to an analysis of real-world data.The findings, presented ...

Sickle cell disease affects nearly 8 million people worldwide, most in sub-Saharan Africa.

Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine are providing medication and other aid to fight sickle cell disease in sub-Saharan Africa.

Learn how African screening programs save infants with sickle cell disease Experience one family's journey toward better health outcomes.

Some types of sickle cell disease cause severe illness while others have a mild or unidentified course. Here’s what you need to know.

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland is enrolling patients in an innovative clinical trial that seeks to cure sickle cell disease. The trial is the first in the U.S. to apply non-viral CRISPR-Cas9 ...

Sickle cell disease is a genetic blood disorder caused by a single mutation in both copies of a gene coding for beta-globin. Beta-globin forms half of the oxygen-carrying molecule hemoglobin. This ...