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A researcher at Duke University, speaks out after her NIH grant for sickle cell research was terminated. The $750,000 funding cut, justified by NIH as a move against diversity, equity, and ...
Over a hundred sickle cell warriors and their families turned out in support for World Sickle Cell Day at West Oakland’s DeFremery Park on Sunday.
Cohen Children's Medical Center held its Second Annual Sickle Cell Fashion Show, celebrating both Juneteenth and World Sickle Cell Awareness Day.
Building positive and non-discriminatory relationships with friends and colleagues who have sickle cell disease (SCD) requires empathy, understanding, and deliberate efforts to foster inclusivity.
According to the American Red Cross, there is no universal cure for sickle cell disease, but blood transfusions are proven to effectively treat the disease.
Alsheebani is one of the first adults in the world, and the first adult at the medical system, to be effectively cured of sickle cell disease using gene therapy.
Without the Sickle Cell Data Collection program, we will see greater burdens and higher costs for both families and health care systems.
Despite some recent setbacks to its sickle cell disease pipeline, Pfizer is plowing ahead in improving education around the disease.
A Michigan woman living with sickle cell disease says her life may now be at risk after the CDC disbanded the team responsible for researching safe birth control for people with chronic conditions ...
Victoria Gray is the first person in the world to receive CRISPR, a gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease created by Dr. Jennifer Doudna who won the Nobel Prize for the life saving ...
New gene therapy improves the life of 18-year-old with Sickle Cell Disease which affects 5,000 New Jersey residents living with the condition.