Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is an inherited disorder of red blood cells. Some parents may learn that their infant has this disorder after prenatal testing. Hospitals also test for SCA after birth as part ...

Cristina Pina receives funding from Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group via the Little Princess Trust and the National Centre for the Replacement, Reduction and Refinement of Animals in Research.

A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say. They credit state-of-the-art genetic treatment. Medical history made at Cohen Children's Medical ...

After four years of battling a severe blood disease, five-year-old Zion Ortiz is finally free of sickle cell anemia.

A one-time gene-editing therapy, exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel), has demonstrated sustained and clinically meaningful ...

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 ...

A Long Island hospital has said that it has successfully eliminated sickle cell disease from Sebastien Beauzile, a 21-year-old from Laurelton, using the groundbreaking Lyfgenia gene therapy. Cohen ...

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 ...