Adults with sickle cell anemia (SCA) and healthy controls with greater economic deprivation have older brain age, acco ...

People with sickle cell disease often struggle with memory, focus, learning and problem solving, setting them back in ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that individuals with sickle cell disease show premature brain aging, appearing 14 years older ...

The Neuse-Pamlico Sound Women's Coalition is preparing for its 9th annual "March for Sickle Cell" 5K walk-run, an event aimed at raising awareness and funds to ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Emory Moore, a 12-year-old treated at Brenner Children’s Hospital for sickle cell disease, received a special day with the Wake Forest basketball team. Despite her diagnosis, ...

Individuals with sickle cell disease – a chronic illness where misshapen, sticky blood cells clump together, reducing oxygen ...

“Like someone is jamming a knife in me,” he said. But for a brief moment on a recent December morning, Wedam, 19, who has sickle cell disease, allowed himself to believe what his doctors had ...

In the FOX8 House Call, we’re talking about Sickle Cell Disease. It’s an inherited red blood cell disorder, and it affects ...

Since two gene therapies were approved for sickle cell disease in late 2023, only a handful of patients have started the ...

Pfizer is voluntarily withdrawing its sickle cell disease (SCD) therapy Oxbryta from all world markets after finding an "imbalance" in deaths in its clinical trials programme. It's a blow to the ...

Virtually every cell in the body requires iron in order to function well. Iron is involved in key bodily processes, including the transportation of oxygen in the blood. It also plays a central ...