Sickle cell anemia refers to a group of genetic blood disorders that affect a person’s levels of hemoglobin, the protein in ...

Sickle cell anemia may qualify as a disability for people experiencing severe symptoms, allowing access to benefits. However, eligibility depends on how the condition affects daily life. Sickle cell ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Sickle cell anemia is a disease that occurs among about one out of every 365 Black or African-American births. That's according to the Centers for Disease Control, which has ...

Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is a disorder that affects a person’s blood. Some research indicates that hundreds of thousands of people around the world experience this condition. SCA is a genetic blood ...

It would seem an unlikely pairing. One, pediatric hematologist Lydia Pecker, raised in Brooklyn and trained in the Bronx and Washington, D.C. The other, Lauren Anthony, recruited from Edmond, Oklahoma ...

Sickle Cell Disease is an awful genetic disease that disproportionally affects black people. It's caused by a single-point mutation in DNA, which results in a modified hemoglobin protein, differing by ...

Sickle cell anemia, a type of sickle cell disease (SCD), is a genetic condition that affects your red blood cells (RBCs). It affects around 100,000 Americans and is most common in people of African, ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – At 28 years old, Vanessa Baffour-Singletary balances life as a wife, mother and a career in educational policy. But she has a battle to fight every day: sickle cell anemia. “There ...

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.