Only a few patients have undergone an intensive gene therapy cure for sickle cell disease since it was approved by the FDA due to it's high cost and limited access. NBC News' Yamiche Alcindor spoke ...

Children with sickle cell disease, a chronic hemolytic anemia, present with a wide variety of neurological syndromes, including ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, transient ischemic attacks ...

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.

Sickle cell anemia refers to a group of genetic blood ... may help to manage the pain. But if pain management is not possible, a hospital may be able to provide more effective pain relief.

The Congressional Budget Office said policies to increase treatment uptake could affect Medicaid, Social Security, and other government programs.

At 9 months of age he appeared pale. Anemia was found, and electrophoresis established the diagnosis of sickle-cell disease. Both parents had hemoglobin-AS pattern on electrophoresis but were ...

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 ...

Editas Medicine said Thursday afternoon it will lay off 65% of its staff — around 180 employees — as it shelves its lead gene-editing program for sickle cell disease and shifts focus.

Regions of reduced white matter density in patients with sickle cell anemia and covert infarction are displayed on the mean white matter segment. The white matter abnormality distribution is ...