A newly opened sickle cell treatment center at the Medical University of South Carolina is facing growing criticism from patients and civil rights advocates who say they are being denied adequate pain ...

What was supposed to be a five-year, $750,000 NIH grant to fund Dr. Charity Oyedeji's sickle cell research at Duke University – was terminated. “I thought it was possible,” Oyedeji said when asked if ...

Dor people of colour, finding the right blood match is far from routine and donor diversity could be the difference between ...

Sickle cell patients and their families are speaking out, saying their pain is being treated with a one-size-fits-all approach that fails to recognize how diffe ...

The incidence of severe maternal morbidity remains high among patients with sickle cell disease, but a novel risk calculator ...

Under the agreement, participating states will receive “discounts and rebates” from the drugmakers if the treatments don’t ...

During Black History Month, Blood Assurance urges more African American donors in North Alabama to aid sickle cell patients ...

The School Without Walls will hold its fourth annual blood drive on Wednesday, which also aims to raise awareness for sickle cell disease.

Medicaid is doing a novel payment system for the new, promising and expensive sickle cell treatment. It may become a model ...

Gene therapy is a medical treatment that works by changing or fixing a person's genes to treat or prevent disease ...

Hoosiers from across the state will gather at the Indiana State Capitol on Monday, Feb. 2, to call attention to the urgent ...

At the weekend in Kampala, a piece of news landed that could reshape the future of one of the world’s most neglected diseases. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) had accepted a ...