When a sickle cell pain crisis landed her in the hospital, columnist Mary Shaniqua soon identified the cause: getting two vaccines at once.

Some types of sickle cell disease cause severe illness, while others have a mild or unapparent course. Sickle cell disease is present from birth and inherited from genes you receive from your parents.

Historically, sickle cell anaemia has been widely neglected within its global epicentre of sub-Saharan Africa. More than ...

The new gene therapies for sickle cell disease—including the gene-editing treatment Casgevy, based on research at Boston ...

Her first terrible pain crisis set in not long after the funeral. She landed in a children’s hospital this time, where they ...

There [are] certain instances or situations that can trigger a sickle cell crisis or a pain crisis, and that is changing from warm to extreme cold, like you can't do the cold playing outside ...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will invest up to $50 million in Tessera’s in vivo sickle cell therapy. Elsewhere, Cara ...

As a student and advocate for health equity, I’ve been deeply moved by sickle cell warriors’ stories and feel inspired to shed light on their challenges. The Food and Drug Administration’s December ...

c. What treatments or interventions used for acute sickle cell crises are equivalent to parenteral narcotic medication in terms of medical severity of the underlying acute crisis (e.g., acute ...

But what if the thing that will make climate change feel like a crisis to most everyone is already underway across the country? What if it’s the erosion of something entirely mundane ...