September Is Sickle Cell Awareness Month. While many people are familiar with sickle cell anemia, sickle cell traits have also plagued our community. Sickle cell trait (SCT) is an inherited blood ...

People are often encouraged to “know their status,” however this healthy habit can be applied to more than just safe-sex practices. Although they are not the only community who suffers with sickle ...

Exa-cel, a new CRISPR-based treatment, modifies the genes of the patient's stem cells to induce them to produce fetal hemoglobin. I have a long-standing interest in sickle cell anemia, a genetic ...

When Patricia McGill was 13 and learning that she had inherited sickle cell disease, she did not think she would reach 30. But now she and her family are celebrating McGill’s 80th year. McGill is one ...

National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers and collaborators have found that being a carrier for sickle cell disease, known as having sickle cell trait, increases the risk of blood clots, a risk ...

A parasite that causes malaria is halted by sickle cells and makes people who carry the sickle cell trait more resistant to the disease. This is why sickle cell trait also occurs more in people who ...

September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month. More than 100,000 people in the United States have sickle cell anemia, but 1 out of 15 Black people carry the sickle cell trait. Sickle cell is an inherited ...

Local volunteers are on a mission to not only help residents learn if they have sickle cell disease, but to help out their neighbors who already suffer the devastating effects. The Zion Hope Church, ...

Even the name sounds horrible − sickle cell disease − conjuring up images of menacing hooks, only these hooks are slicing through the bloodstream of an estimated 100,000 Americans, mostly Black ...

September is National Sickle Cell Anemia Awareness Month. Sickle cell anemia is a disease that is inherited genetically through a trait passed to a child by both parents, affecting the blood cells.