Sickle cell disease is not rare and affects many children in India. This genetic condition is inherited when both parents ...

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved gene therapy to treat sickle cell disease among children ages 2 and older, which a Nashville doctor described as a medical milestone.

By Yiqing Wang/WHRO State lawmakers have budgeted nearly $15 million over two years to help Virginia Medicaid cover gene ...

Agios Pharmaceuticals shares rose Tuesday after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted priority review to the company's supplemental new drug application for mitapivat to treat sickle cell ...

Learn how gene editing is transforming sickle cell disease treatment and why expanding access to younger children matters.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a supplemental approval for Casgevy (exagamglogene autotemcel) for patients ...

Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy traveling through your blood vessels. They are delivering oxygen to all the different tissues in your body and removing carbon dioxide to ...

The first person to ever be cured of sickle cell anemia in Louisiana received revolutionary gene therapy. The treatment is ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) can affect people of any ethnicity but is much more common among Africans and African Americans. Other ethnic groups with higher rates of SCD include Hispanic Americans from ...

Ibemere, also a Duke Global Health Institute faculty member, set out to change that. She began organizing intensive boot ...

Research has found a strong correlation between painful periods and high rates of depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts ...