Despite a Trump administration push, there are few facilities offering the complex treatment in the rural areas where many ...

Elijah Dottery, a young sickle cell patient from Saginaw, was recently chosen as Detroit Lions' player Aidan Hutchinson's ...

Caden Major was born with sickle cell disease – an inherited blood disorder affecting red blood cells. Now at 19 years old, doctors said he's essentially "cured" thanks to gene therapy treatment at ...

Despite decades of research, the average life expectancy for an American with sickle cell remains about 20 years shorter than ...

Sickle cell anemia, or sickle cell disease (SCD), is a genetic disease of the red blood cells (RBCs). Normally, RBCs are shaped like discs, which gives them the flexibility to travel through even the ...

At the Cleveland Clinic, doctors are using a one-time gene-editing therapy that alters a patient’s own blood-forming stem cells to correct the genetic mutation responsible for the disease. Physicians ...

Sickle cell pain crises can be extremely severe and painful. Doctors use different treatments, such as pain relievers, and prevention strategies to help people manage these pain crises. A sickle cell ...

SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) - At just 10 years old, Elijah Dottery has already faced more challenges than most people will in a ...

Teonna Woolford has always said that when it came time to build a family, her ideal would be to have six kids. Why six? "I don't know where that number came from. I just felt like four wasn't enough," ...

Mary Thomson and her husband, Kanjala, have lost their income amid changing witchdoctors, but their firstborn’s suffering has not changed. Since 2011, Ethel, 15, was frequently bedridden with severe ...

With a rise that came in unison with the U.S. economy's crash, Sickle laid the groundwork for the sire line that gave us the ...

Sickle cell anemia is an inherited condition that follows an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern. Even if you don’t have sickle cell anemia, you could be a carrier of the gene for it. Sickle cell ...