“They’re doing other experiments now with gene therapy," she said. "But doing the bone marrow transplant is the only known ...

Below is a brief description of sickle cell disease and the populations most affected by it.SCD is a genetic blood disorder that affects the structure and function of red blood cells. In individuals ...

Abdullahi also noted that people with sickle cell don’t always look sick. “I could go to the E.R. like this and say, ‘I am in pain’ because I have pain right now in my hip.

With sickle cell anemia, it's never just one kind of pain. Sometimes it's a vicious ambush, fast and pulsating. Sometimes it settles in slowly and stays for days, throbbing deep in the bones.

Connecticut is now participating in a new federal program aimed at expanding treatment access for patients with sickle cell ...

In this interview with , Professor Bosede Afolabi, the Director of the Centre for Clinical Trials, Research, and ...

Use of crizanlizumab at 2.5 mg/kg reduced sickle cell–related pain crises by 32.6% compared with placebo (median, 2.01 vs. 2.98), although the difference was not statistically significant.

Daniel Cressy yawned, tired after three days of watching a machine pull blood out of his body, extract his stem cells and ...

The study, “A Prospective Study of Daily Pain in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease,” is published in the Jan. 15, 2008, issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.

Doctors have long measured sickle cell's severity by how often patients seek care for pain crises. But last month, Virginia Commonwealth University researchers reported stunning evidence that that ...

A new University of Minnesota study shows companionship, diet changes and a common antidepressant called Duloxetine can reduce pain in mice with sickle cell disease. Although the researchers have yet ...

Sickle cell pain crises don’t take work schedules into account. Through his young adult life, Blake said, he has struggled to keep jobs despite having a good work ethic, because of frequent ...